Investors call out companies over human rights risks
Bloomberg
Riot police stand guard in front of a store following a protest for democracy and human rights in Hong Kong in 2019.
A group of institutional investors with a collective $5.8 trillion in assets is pressing companies to do better when it comes to human rights.
Members of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, an initiative of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, include asset management firms, public pension funds, trade union funds, faith-based institutions, family funds and endowments.
Alliance members sent a statement to 106 companies that scored zero on human rights due diligence indicators in the 2020 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark Report, which assesses human rights disclosures of 230 global companies across five sectors identified as presenting a high risk of negative human rights impacts: agricultural products; apparel; extractives such as mining, oil and gas; information and communications te
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