Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
February 2, 2010 – Trillium Asset Management Corporation has joined a coalition of investors in calling on major electronics, medical device and automobile component manufactures, to ensure that the companies are not aiding conflict and human rights abuses by purchasing supplies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The investors, who represent almost $200 [...]
Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Hot News, Human Rights
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at three different death camps, was deported from the United [...]
Tags: Milt Moskowitz, slave labor
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
In early June, I traveled with members of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) through Louisiana’s heavily industrialized and highly polluted 85-mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge known as “Cancer Alley,” then further west to the town of Mossville, a cancer alley unto its own. Our guides were leaders from local environmental [...]
Tags: Environment, Environmental Health
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
In early June, Trillium Asset Management Social Research Analyst Susan Baker led a group of 40 investors on a fact-finding tour of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” The investors, who were gathered in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, represented faith-based institutions and socially responsible investment firms collectively holding billions of dollars [...]
Tags: ConocoPhillips, Environmental Health, environmental justice, Environmental News, Hot News, ICCR
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Court Judgment Expected This Year
by Shelley Alpern
Five years ago, I had the privilege of getting a firsthand look at the evidence in one of the most important lawsuits being heard anywhere in the world. The exhibits are a number of oily pits and ponds scattered throughout the state of Sucumbios, Ecuador, right in the middle [...]
Tags: Chevron, Ecuador, Shareholder Activism, shareholder advocacy, Texaco
Posted in Cover Story, Environment, Environmental Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, News Article | read more...
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Investors in two major U.S. Internet Service Providers – CenturyTel, Inc. and EarthLink, Inc. – voted in substantial numbers in favor of a first-time shareholder resolution that highlighted the importance of Internet management practices and their impact on Internet privacy and freedom of expression. The resolutions, which were filed and voted on for the first [...]
Tags: Internet Service provider, Open Mic
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Hot News, Human Rights, Privacy | read more...
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
The Chinese made a grand entrance on the Olympic world stage – intense, controlled, intimidating (if you find 2,008 men beating drums with seamless precision intimidating). Yet the awe inspiring opening ceremony was perfectly balanced with peaceful displays of song, calligraphy, and dance. As fairies began to fly through the Olympic rings, my biases surrounding [...]
Posted in Commentary, Human Rights, News Article, Uncategorized | read more...
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Statement at JP Morgan Chase Stockholder Meeting in Support of
Resolution No. 10 Concerning Human Rights Policies
May 20, 2008
Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Board of Directors & my fellow shareholders. I am presenting this proposal on behalf of Trillium Asset Management Corporation, the Calvert Group, Amnesty International and the General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits of [...]
Tags: China, Citigroup, CNPC, Darfur, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Petronas, Shareholder Resolutions, Sinopec, Sudan, T.Rowe Price
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
WHEREAS
The issue of human rights increasingly impacts investors and companies alike. Company reputations are affected by both direct and indirect involvement in human rights violations. Operating in countries with clear patterns of these violations, such as Sudan and Burma, may heighten reputational and financial risk. Furthermore, companies can face similar risks when they or their [...]
Tags: Human Rights, investment policy, Morgan Stanley, Resolution, Sudan
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
WHEREAS
The issue of Human Rights increasingly impacts investors and companies alike. Company reputations are affected by both direct and indirect involvement in human rights violations. Operating in countries with clear patterns of these violations, such as Sudan and Burma, may heighten reputational and financial risk. Furthermore, companies can face similar risks when they or their [...]
Tags: Darfur, Divestment, Human Rights, Merrill Lynch, Resolution, Sudan
Posted in Human Rights, Resolutions | read more...
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