Current Initiatives

July 28, 2022 by Julie Wokaty As Climate Impacts Mount, Investors Appeal to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Advocate for Public Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions

NEW YORK, NY, THURSDAY, JULY 28TH, 2022 – Today, a group of investors representing U.S. $131B in assets under management announced they sent a letter to the Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (U.S. Chamber) calling on them to advocate for the public policies needed to bring greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emissions in line […]
  • Current Initiatives
  • Press Releases
  • Climate Change and Environmental Justice
  • Climate Lobbying
  • Methane Management
 July 28, 2022
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September 21, 2020 by Julie Wokaty Blog Post: Congress Takes Positive Step to Protect the Uyghur People

Friends, In my 25 years on the staff of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) engaging companies on human rights concerns including labor rights and working conditions in global supply chains,  I’ve seen serious human rights abuses in many locations: a factory in Guatemala where supervisors were sexually harassing young women workers; a factory in China […]
  • Blog
  • Current Initiatives
  • Equitable Global Supply Chains
  • Prohibiting Import of Forced Labor Goods
 September 21, 2020
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August 31, 2020 by Julie Wokaty Human Rights Groups Call on U.S. for Regional Ban on Imports from China Made with Uyghur Forced Labor

Groups file petition with Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for a regional WRO on cotton products from the Xinjiang Region  NEW YORK, NY, MONDAY, AUGUST 31ST, 2020 – Today a group of human rights, labor and investor organizations, filed a formal petition with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), urging it to issue a regional […]
  • Current Initiatives
  • Press Releases
  • Prohibiting Import of Forced Labor Goods
 August 31, 2020
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November 5, 2019 by Julie Wokaty Blog Post: Proposed SEC Rule Changes Threaten to Decrease Corporate Accountability

In Bow to Trump Administration’s Deregulatory Agenda, Proposed SEC Rule Changes Threaten to Decrease Corporate Accountability and Diminish Shareholders’ Voice By ICCR CEO Josh Zinner The party-line vote today by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to significantly limit the ability of investors to file shareholder resolutions is yet another action by the Trump Administration […]
  • Blog
  • Current Initiatives
  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 November 5, 2019

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