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Corporate Engagement in Action

ICCR Members are actively engaging companies on the most intractable environmental, social and governance issues impacting today’s people and planet.  Via our Members’ Area website our membership self-organizes and coordinates their work on dozens of issues, however, because they have implications across a broad range of companies and sectors, the following ten issue areas have been designated as priorities by the membership:

 
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Sustainable use of water resources that respect the universal human right to water.

 
Resources:
Stakeholder Responsibilities in Managing Access to Water
 
Blue Gold
 
ICCR Statement of Principles and Recommendations for Corporate Water Stewardship
 
Toward Water Disclosure

 

Sacred Rites and Human Rights
 
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Influencing companies to adopt practices that are aligned with a safe, secure, healthy and sustainable food system.

 
Resources:
Hungry for Health
 
Responsible Investment in Commodities
 
Statement of Principles and Recommended Practices for Sustainable and Equitable Food Production
 
The Right Solutions for World Hunger
 
Guidelines for Responsible Investing in Food Commodities
 
Recommended Guidelines for Responsible Land Investments

 

Feast or Famine
 

ICCR is bringing the human and community impact of doing business to the forefront of corporate consciousness and to the core of business planning.

 
Resources:
Collaborative Actions to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil (play) (download)
Password :iccrbrazil2012
 
Building Sustainable Communities Through Multi-Party Collaboration: ICCR's Social Sustainability Resource Guide

 

   
 
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Engaging publicly held companies to address forced child labor & human trafficking for sexual & economic purposes.

 
Resources
New Tools to Abolish Slavery
 
Moral Fibers
 
Abolishing Slavery and Trafficking is Everyone's Responsibility (Ad placed by ICCR in US Airways' in-flight magazine)
 
Leveraging Corporate Power in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
 
Corporate Approaches to Address Human Trafficking: Investor Recommendations to London Olympic Sponsors and Hospitality Companies
 
Celebration without Exploitation Campaign Website
 
Celebration without Exploitation Toolkit
 
The Human Cost of Doing Business

 

ICCR's Human Trafficking Investor Statement
 
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Working to ensure adoption over the next five years of safer environmental policies by companies around the world.

 
Resources:
The Price of Denial
 
Mossville, LA, "Cancer Capitol"
Extracting the Facts: An Investor Guide to Disclosing Risks from Hydraulic Fracturing Operations
 
Healthy People and Planet

 

40 Years of Environmental Stewardship
 
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Every pharmaceutical company incorporates access to medicines into its core business model, including geographic focus, product development, and delivery systems.

 
Resources:
New Strategies for Global Health
 
The License to Cure
 
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Advocating for practices that support provision of quality and affordable health care for all.

 
Resources:
Best Wishes for a Healthy New Year
 
Statement of Principles and Recommended Practices for Corporations on Domestic Health Issues

 

An Ounce of Prevention
 
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Working for greater transparency, risk management and accountability across the financial sector and improved access to credit and capital for the marginalized and underserved.

 
Resources:
Ranking the Banks
 
Just Follow the Money: Corporate Lobbying and Political Spending
 
Faith & Finance: Finding Common Ground to Protect the Common Good

 

Capital: A Means to an End
Supply Chain Monitoring
 
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Engaging companies to adopt programs, policies and practices that account for the short and long-term sustainability of the workers and communities impacted by their operations.

 
Resources:
Effective Supply Chain Accountability: Investor Guidance on Implementation of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act

 

Are Western consumers ready to pay more for apparel? (video)