Ethics

Thousands - including heads of states, political dissidents, journalists and activists - have been identified as potential victims

RI’s human rights specialist Gina Gambetta reflects on recent developments on the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Workers in apparel supply chains are among the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, workers had to survive on poverty wages; in the first three months of the pandemic alone, workers lost at least US$3 billion in income. Poverty, discrimination, a lack of labor protections, and restrictions on movement form the breeding ground for exploitation and forced labor risks— and the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically worsened these factors. Workers’ already meager livelihoods were taken away and many lack the support of social and labor protections, which do not extend to (undocumented) migrant workers.

A number of Danish funds have put companies under observation or axed them

The study by Bahrain-based advisor will inform an ESG advisory service set to be launched in September

Oil fund has also divested from clothing company with garment factories in Myanmar

Nest excludes fossil fuels and most sovereigns including US Treasuries

NZ Super says banks’ financing of Israeli settlements ‘inconsistent’ with UN Global Compact

Investors are ramping up environmental and social engagement with sovereign bond issuers

What connects Trump’s demagoguery to ESG concerns is that both flow from our contemporary neglect of ‘public’.