All Social issues articles – Page 10
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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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Blog postVaccine nationalism – why responsible investors must change the course of action
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI
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WebinarDisability Inclusion: a strategic ESG perspective for investors
This webinar will explore disability inclusion in the workplace as a critical social issue for investors which needs to be examined with a strategic perceptive, mitigating risks and realising the opportunities that disability brings. The speakers will discuss increasing evidence that embracing equality and diversity contributes to the long-term success ...
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Blog postThe case for infrastructure investors to go further on human rights
By Simon Whistler, Senior Specialist, Investment Practices, PRI
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WebinarEngaging on Whistleblowing: The Value for Investors
This webinar will explore the relevance of whistleblowing for investors and launch the PRI engagement guidance on whistleblowing. The discussion will cover the investor perspective, implications of recent regulatory developments such as the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive, and include perspectives from a former whistleblower.
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Blog postWhistleblowing through the social and governance lenses
By Betina Vaz Boni, Analyst, Governance Issues, PRI and Elena Espinoza, Acting Head, Social Issues, PRI
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Engagement guideWhistleblowing: why and how to engage with your investee companies
Transparency International defines whistleblowing as the disclosure or reporting of wrongdoing. We use a broad framing of whistleblowing mechanisms to include those arrangements that encourage employees, customers and suppliers to speak up and share information on activities that violate a company’s ethical code of conduct, its legal and regulatory requirements ...
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WebinarPRI Digital Forum: Americas - Breakout 1B: Human rights
This session will focus on identifying and remedying human rights violations in private equity portfolios.
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WebinarPRI Digital Forum: Americas - Diversity, equity and inclusion
This webinar addresses the myth of meritocracy in hiring and promotion practices.
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PodcastSpotlight on human rights: what are they and how do they impact investors?
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s Nikolaj Halkjaer Pedersen engages in a dynamic human rights-focused conversation with Chris Newton, Executive Director of Responsible Investment at IFM Investors and Akiko Sato, Human Rights Lawyer and Japan Programme Coordinator at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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WebinarPRI Digital Forum: EMEA - Breakout 2B. Africa's Just Transition in practice
This session will discuss the challenges and opportunities of a just transition for Africa, with reflections from the continent and beyond.
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Case studyEngaging ICT companies to better protect children from sexual exploitation online
Case study by Christian Brothers Investment Services
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Blog postWhat institutional investors need to know about the ‘S’ in ESG
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI and John Ruggie, author of the UN Guiding Principles and professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
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PodcastInvesting in the living wage
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s Nabylah Abo Dehman speaks with Sam Hepher from the Living Wage Foundation and ShareAction’s Rachel Hargreaves.
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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.
