Resources in 'Supply Chain'

Investors are being urged to take steps to identifiy, prevent and mitigate risks in portfolio companies to ensue they have no direct links to human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region. Read the full article on Just-Style.

The fallout from the deadliest garment factory accident in history shows the role that investors can have in changing business practices. Pressures have mounted on traditionally conservative Swiss pension funds to make an impact of their own. In April 2013, more than 1000 factory workers died when...

Gold mined from conflict areas in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is reaching the supply chains of major US companies and finding its way into consumer products, according to an NGO report. The report by The Sentry – an initiative of NGO Enough Project and human rights charity Not On Our Watch...

More than 60 institutional investors have urged the jewelry trade to implement more stringent control of supply chains in order to eliminate human-rights abuses. The organizations, members of the Investors Alliance for Human Rights, last week expressed concerns about child and forced labor in the...

Statement endorsed by global funds and sent to 32 jewelry manufacturers and retailers calls for enhanced human rights due diligence in jewelry supply chains to root out forced and child labor. NEW YORK, NY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 – Members of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights are releasing...

Mixed messaging from SEC chair prompts investors representing $1.2 trillion to remind companies of legal responsibility to disclose sourcing of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold in accordance with Dodd-Frank 1502. Today, a group of 47 institutional investors representing $1.2 trillion in assets...