All Decent work articles
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Workshop summaryIncorporating decent work into capital allocation
This article summarises the key points made at a workshop regarding how signatories incorporate decent work and safeguard expectations into their capital allocation process.
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WebinarPRI in Person 2022: Using stewardship to tackle human rights issues in metals & mining and renewables
Hear about the plans and strategy for the first phase of Advance – PRI’s new collaborative stewardship initiative on human rights and social issues, where engagement has begun with the metals & mining and renewables sectors.
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WebinarPRI in Person 2022: Advancing investor action on human rights and social issues
How can investors take action on human rights and social issues in line with international human rights standards, and in line with a rapidly evolving existing and anticipated regulatory environment?
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ArticleInvestor human rights policy commitments: an overview
Examples of our signatories’ human rights policy commitments that are consistent with the UNGPs
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ArticleHuman rights benchmarks for investors: an overview
This resource provides a general overview of human rights benchmarks available to investors.
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Policy reportInvesting for a just transition: Proposals for a just transition disclosure framework in China
As China moves towards a low-carbon society and increasingly pursues a strategy of high-quality development, there is rich context for a just transition to be applied in China.
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WebinarThe investor role in advancing decent work
This session will explore how and why investors should act on advancing the decent work agenda. It will focus on how the pandemic has exacerbated many of the pre-existing challenges, what minimum safeguards are needed to support decent work and how investors can harness the key transitions to support workers ...
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Discussion paperHow investors can advance decent work
This paper will define the concept of decent work, emphasising a human-centric approach towards workers and their rights, in line with various global standards and frameworks.
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Engagement guideResponsible cobalt sourcing: Engagement results
This report summarises the outcomes of the PRI-supported collaborative engagement on responsible cobalt sourcing between 2018 and 2020
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WebinarHow Investors can Improve Workers’ Rights: Lessons from the Fair Food Program
This webinar will explore how WSR has transformed the lives of those involved and outline how investors can support the drive to protect the workers in corporate supply chains.
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ArticleTheme 3: Covid-19, privacy rights and cyber security risks
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have introduced measures around bio-surveillance, censorship and misinformation that could have significant impacts on privacy rights.
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ArticleTheme 2: supporting suppliers and building resilient supply chains
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the lack of resilience of supply chains in respect of labour rights during a large-scale disruption.
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ArticleTheme 1: protecting workers’ rights through the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 crisis is primarily a public health emergency, but its consequences have shown that it is much more than that. While there is a sense that the pandemic is a collective phenomenon, the stark reality is that it hits the most vulnerable hardest.
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ArticleCovid-19 and human and labour rights concerns
In March 2020, the PRI launched two discussion forums on the PRI collaboration platform to collect investor experiences relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PRI Web PageCollaborative engagement on responsible sourcing of cobalt
This PRI-supported collaborative engagement on responsible cobalt sourcing ran between 2018 and 2020 with companies in the electronics and automotive sector. A total of 46 institutional investors, representing approximately US$6.4trn in assets under management, engaged with 16 companies on their cobalt sourcing practices.
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ArticleAGM season during the COVID-19 pandemic: trends and themes
The 2020 AGM season has been unique. The record levels of support seen across 2019’s environmental and social proposals, alongside increasingly urgent climate action and commitments by huge corporates and investors to stakeholder capitalism, set the stage for an interesting season. In addition to this, the COVID-19 crisis has, in ...
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ArticleAGM Season 2020: investor questions on COVID-19
This guidance (co-developed by the PRI, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, California State Teachers’ Retirement System and APG) provides investors with ESG-related questions to ask investee companies’ – at annual general meetings (AGMs) and in follow-up engagements – about their responses to COVID-19.
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WebinarHuman rights due diligence and modern slavery: the case for investor action
This webinar will explore how investors can play a role in pushing for more and better human rights due diligence and will focus in particular on efforts to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking. Speakers from the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, the World Business Council for ...
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WebinarLabour rights in infrastructure investing
In this webinar, the PRI, IFM Investors and the Committee on Workers’ Capital discussed key issues and different approaches to managing labour issues in infrastructure investing, and particularly sought to highlight how greater engagement between core stakeholders on these issues can be a critical success factor for different infrastructure projects.
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WebinarWebinar: PRI and Investor Alliance: Labour rights in apparel supply chains – quo vadis
This webinar, hosted by the PRI and The Investor Alliance, discusses how investors can use two recent benchmarks published by The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and KnowTheChain to assess companies in their portfolios. Adidas shares practical examples of how to ensure labour rights protection in challenging contexts and lower tiers ...
