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A slew of investor groups, including the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights similarly released a statement on Tuesday reiterating their support for...

The EU's due diligence directive will empower governments, stakeholders and investors to hold companies accountable, say Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt and Richard Gardiner.

Just days after Germany declared its opposition to a new piece of legislation that would require large companies to check their supply chains for environmental damages and human rights violations, investor groups have asked EU member states to back the rule.

Meta Give Each Share an Equal Vote Lead Filer: NorthStar Asset Management Child Safety Online Lead Filer: Proxy Impact "Meta is the world’s largest social media company, used by billons of children and teenagers. Its platforms—including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp—have been linked to...

Does the transition away from fossil fuels towards ‘green’ or renewable forms of energy have a dark side?

The race for renewable energy faces a major hurdle: Uyghur forced labor.

The United Kingdom (“UK”)-based Anti-Slavery International, in combination with the Investor Alliance for Human Rights and the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, has published a series of reports addressing the issue of forced labor in solar and electric...

A recently published investor guide and policy brief on green technology supply chains found that more proactive strategies are needed to keep forced labor out of the supply chain in the U.K., reports The Independent. The report also highlighted that any actions taken to try and eliminate complicity...

A significant portion of solar and EV materials, essential to achieve emissions reduction targets, are produced in China’s Xinjiang region.

Investors and governments are not adequately addressing Uyghur forced labour risks in the renewable energy sector, research has found.

The solar and electric vehicle industries have been heavily impacted by forced labour in the region.

Co-authors Anti-Slavery International, the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights have launched new investor guidance and a policy briefing advising more effective and proactive strategies to address systemic forced...

Highlights from the latest developments in sustainable finance: A group of business and finance institutions, including the Investor Alliance, have issued a call for sector-specific European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). Read the full statement here. P+ divests 10 Chinese solar...

Reinsurers are still developing ESG policies. UK pension schemes should use their influence to push insurers to apply their ESG policies toward reinsurance partners.

By Christen Dobson, Co-Head, Civic Freedoms & Human Rights Defenders Programme, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Twenty-five years ago, the landmark Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was adopted by the UN General Assembly reinforcing that we all have the right to defend human rights. It...

An open consultation took place at today’s Forum, as the UN Working Group prepares a report for June next year on how to align Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) approaches in the financial sector with the UN Guiding Principles. Speakers called on investors to themselves use a rightsholder...

Throughout the human rights and environmental due diligence process, businesses should meaningfully engage with actually and potentially affected stakeholders or their appointed representatives.