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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Statement of Solidarity: RightsCon 2026 Cancellation

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In response to the abrupt cancellation of RightsCon 2026 by the Zambian government, days before the gathering was scheduled to begin, the Investor Alliance for Human Rights issued the following statement: The Investor Alliance for Human Rights stands in solidarity with our trusted partner Access Now...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Human Rights and Trade Policy: A Political Pawn?

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March 2026, Antje Schneeweiss, Committee of Church Investors Germany (AKI) Are trade policies the appropriate means to strengthen human rights globally? Recently we have seen the U.S. administration threating higher tariffs on Europe unless human rights legislation, which would also cover U.S...
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Thursday, October 9, 2025

CSDDD: Bad for business, or the bane of bad actors?

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By Noor Hamadeh, Senior Advocacy Counsel at the International Corporate Accountability (ICAR) and Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, Associate Director at the Investor Alliance for Human Rights In July 2024, after over five years of prolonged advocacy and negotiations, the EU Corporate Sustainability Due...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

Power and Responsibility: Investors at the Crossroads of Tech Accountability

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Debates around tech accountability tend to focus on ethics, regulation, and corporate behavior. Yet, finance, easily one of the most powerful forces shaping any industry, particularly the ever-growing and capital-intensive technology ecosystem, remains largely invisible to most. Especially in today...
Monday, June 23, 2025

How big brands and foreign money prop up Chinese forced labour

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From pension funds to global businesses, investors and consumers are handing over cash to companies using Xinjiang workers.
Monday, June 9, 2025

The Cost of Uncertainty: Why Europe undermining its own sustainability framework will have global impacts

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By Richard Gardiner, Strategic Public Policy Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance As the European Union (EU) fumbles around re-writing its key sustainability rules, and begins deliberations on a far-reaching “ Omnibus” proposal to cut and simplify these rules, one thing is becoming painfully clear...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

House Republicans want to stop states from regulating AI. More than 100 organizations are pushing back

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More than 100 organizations are raising alarms about a provision in the House’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package that would hamstring the regulation of artificial intelligence systems.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Citing New Evidence of Backsliding by Tech Companies, Investors Reiterate Call for Robust Safeguards to Protect Users' Digital Rights

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Amid the unchecked rise of Gen AI, global conflict, and threats to democracy worldwide, the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index reveals how most tech companies are failing to keep pace, exposing billions of users to human rights risks. NEW YORK, NY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 – In response to the...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

Shine Global Joins 100 Organizations in Letter Decrying Cuts to ILAB Grants to Address Child Labor and Forced Labor

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Shine Global has joined more than 100 civil society organizations to call on the US Department of Labor to continue fighting forced labor and child labor. Recent cuts of $500 million in funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), whose federally-funded programs play a critical role...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Driving human rights performance is about pushing for the right data

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In our work as active owners, meaning asset managers, we see how timely and adequate information in regards to material ESG (environmental, social and governance) risks is key for a responsible investor. We also join forces with others to push for change.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Investors at War with Tech Firms on AI

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The increasingly pervasive use of big tech-designed AI in weapons and surveillance poses risks to investors.
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Monday, March 10, 2025

Disastrous Omnibus proposal erodes EU’s corporate accountability commitments and slashes human rights and environmental protections

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The publication by the European Commission of its Omnibus proposal revising key corporate sustainability laws sends a clear political signal: President Ursula von der Leyen is deprioritising human rights, workers’ rights and environmental protections for the sake of dangerous deregulation. The...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Matthew Welch on the UN Business and Human Rights Forum

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By Matthew Welch, Responsible Investment Specialist at Degroof Petercam Asset Management (DPAM) DPAM took part in a breakfast investor roundtable on just energy transition, organised as a side-event to the UN Forum, by Swedwatch, a non-profit research organisation dedicated to empowering rights...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Yumi Fujita on the UN Business and Human Rights Forum

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By Yumi Fujita, Senior Engagement Specialist, Robeco The UN Forum in Geneva in November 2024 was an incredibly enriching experience, offering a platform for insightful conversations and engagement on a range of vital topics. These included discussions about human rights due diligence, just...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Tulia Machado-Helland on the UN Business and Human Rights Forum

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By Tulia Machado-Helland, Head of Human Rights at Storebrand Asset Management There is limited understanding of the financial sector as a sustainability stakeholder among the participants in the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, but there is growing interest in the role that investors can play...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Talya Swissa on the UN Business and Human Rights Forum

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By Talya Swissa, Engagement Lead Social Transformation, World Benchmarking Alliance The 13th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights was one of the busiest ones to date, with more than 2,000 participants. This isn’t surprising, given the possibility of upcoming EU legislation and other...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Business needs clarity on EU omnibus proposals, NGOs tell von der Leyen

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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Organisationen im Porträt: Investor Alliance for Human Rights

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For the German-speakers, check out this profile of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights in the Tagesspiegel Background written by Marius Ochs with input from Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, PhD. Take-away: The Investor Alliance is a NGO that supports investors in keeping their value chains free of human...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

ESG funds found to have $1.4bn exposure to Xinjiang labour camps

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Environmental, social and governance funds run by international managers have at the very least $1.4bn allotted to 14 electrical car and photo voltaic corporations linked to pressured labour in Xinjiang, in response to an evaluation by Ignites Asia.
Thursday, December 12, 2024

EU urged not to make ‘arbitrary’ cuts to sustainability disclosure rules

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Nearly 100 NGOs, think tanks and membership bodies have written to Commission president Ursula von der Leyen