Investor Alliance for Human Rights

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, we invite you to join us on 10/23 at 10AM ET for an update on the survivors and how investors are ensuring Dow contributes to remedy for victims of the disaster: https://bit.ly/4eSsQfH

Join this investor briefing on 23rd of October on the Bhopal gas disaster and the role of investors to ensure remedy in the lead up to the 40th anniversary of the disaster organised by the Investor Alliance for Human Rights with Rachna Dhingra Gabriela Quijano and others See for more information 👇🏽

40 years after the Bhopal disaster, investors have continued efforts to ensure Dow contributes to remedying the human rights harms and remediating the ongoing environmental damage. Join us on Oct. 23 for an update on those efforts: https://bit.ly/4eSsQfH

Join us on Oct. 23 for a special investor briefing on the Bhopal disaster and the ongoing role played by investors in ensuring remedy for the victims as we approach the 40th anniversary of the disaster. Register here: https://bit.ly/4eSsQfH

🎉 Kicking off #PRIinPerson this week with two insightful side events! Principles for Responsible Investment invited Rights CoLab to lead a discussion on the Investor HREDD Precision Tools, and OMERS hosted a beta-test of our upcoming Stakeholder Engagement Guide. On Monday, Joanne Bauer introduced the HREDD Precision Tools initiative, heard from investors about how they have been managing HREDD in their stewardship and investing, and invited investors to explore the newest two tools: Certifications Red Flags (beta) and Responsible Contracting. Participants shared smart ideas to refine the beta version of Certifications Red Flags, and explained how they can use each tool. We’re grateful for their valuable input! On Tuesday, a group of investors and subject matter experts joined us at OMERS for the first look at the Stakeholder Engagement Guide prototype. Peter Webster of EIRIS Foundation, Rémi Fernandez of PRI, and Joanne Bauer and Silvana Zapata-Ramirez of Rights CoLab led discussions on assessing the quality of stakeholder engagement, trigger points for direct engagement with rights holders, and how the guide can be practically applied. Key takeaways included: 🔹 Not unlike companies, direct engagement with affected rights holders should be decided based on assessments of saliency and leverage.  🔹 Investors need better ways to prioritize risk levels across different engagements. 🔹 Assessments of financial materiality often begin with reputational and legal risk considerations. 🙌 Our thanks to everyone who participated in these events. Your feedback ensures these tools will be even more decision-useful, helping investors assess the quality of HREDD in their portfolios. 👏 Special thanks to Nabylah Abo dehman at PRI, Lila Han, CFA, CAIA at OMERS, and our partners EIRIS Foundation, ESG Inteligente | Consultoria em Direitos Humanos e Sustentabilidade, and PRI for collaborating on the Stakeholder Engagement Guide! Stay tuned for more testing sessions and ways to get involved here: https://lnkd.in/ePcf6773 Responsible Contracting Project Investor Alliance for Human Rights Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) Workforce Development Institute (WDI)

Speaking at Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)'s Fall Conference in New York was a humbling honor. The animating spirit of Bishop Desmond Tutu imbued a room full of shareholder activists who are fearlessly advocating for human rights in capital markets. In particular, I discussed Venture Capital, Worker Rights and Digital Technologies on a panel alongside Vonda Brunsting, Catherine Bracy, and Dr. Wilneida Negrón, and moderated by Anita Dorett of Investor Alliance for Human Rights. Big thank you to Nadira Narine and Gina Falada, for pulling together this salient conversation on #digitalrights!

Aditi Rukhaiyar from the Investor Alliance for Human Rights has issued a timely call to action for investors to align their ESG strategies with human rights principles. 👉 "Significant progress has been made in raising investor awareness about integrating human rights into ESG approaches. However, a more coherent and global response is urgently needed to ensure that investment practices effectively align with the UNGPs especially because the social impacts prioritized by ESG investors often occur globally." #bizhumanrights #esg #investment #humanrights https://lnkd.in/g8nfdN_z

A critical conversation facilitated by my colleague Dr. Liz Umlas, senior fellow at Croatan Institute, about the legacies of Union Carbide's #Bhopal disaster -- a liability that Dow now fully bears. Forty years on, families and communities in India continue to seek justice and reparation, in terms of both human rights remedies and environmental remediation. Please join the Investor Alliance for Human Rights on October 23rd for this important briefing for engaged social and environmental investors who still have a role to play in advancing this intergenerational demand for justice.

The Bhopal gas leak disaster in India remains one of the worst industrial catastrophes and corporate negligence cases in living memory. Liz Umlas, Senior Fellow at Croatan Institute, will be moderating a special #investor briefing hosted by Investor Alliance for Human Rights on "The Bhopal Disaster 40 Years On: Dow's and Investors' Role in Ensuring Remedy for Victims." Register here for the free event on October 23: https://lnkd.in/gK6_xGYn In March, Amnesty International released "Bhopal: 40 Years of Injustice," providing an update on the situation of Bhopal survivors and efforts to ensure Dow contributes to providing remedy for the human rights harms, which are now intergenerational, and remediating the ongoing environmental damage. Tune in for key learnings and recommendations from the report. Plus, investors will have the opportunity to hear directly from advocates working with Bhopal survivors. Gabriela Quijano, Amishi Singh, Rachna Dhingra, Bennett Freeman #bhopal #india #ej #environment #justice #survivors #health #invest #chemical #intergenerational #humanrights #virtual #free #register #report #industry #action #business #accountability

📚 🚀The first 3 days of the 2nd CEE&CA Summer Academy on Human Rights and Business focused on providing participants with the necessary knowledge to be able to address effectively human rights challenges in business context. 🛠 After the weekend, we have moved to practice-oriented part of the Summer Academy. Sessions and workshops led by experts and business practitioners, with vast experience in the field - including real field, focused on such issues as: 👉 how a company embeds human rights into its business operations and implements human rights due diligence globally, 👉 what is the role - and challenges - of the BHR professional working in the business context, 👉 how investors can support or derail the advancement of respect for human rights by companies, 👉 methodology and practice of Human Rights Impact Assessments 👉 case-study based workshop. Enormous thanks to the amazing experts who share their knowledge and experience so generously: 🔸 Ron Popper, CEO of the The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights 🔸 Maxime Belingheri, Human Rights Manager at L'Oréal 🔸 Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, PhD, Associate Program Director at the Investor Alliance for Human Rights 🔸 Ana Gabriela Factor, Chief Adviser, Human Rights, Tech and Business at the Danish Institute for Human Rights 🔸 Andrea Shemberg, Chair at the The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights; Co-Founder Sila Advisory. 📢 Still ahead of us is the panel discussion on what is the current status-quo, challenges but also opportunities and what are the next steps, with a great suit of speakers from IGO, government, academia and CSOs 💚, who know the region from inside out and try to advance respect for human rights by business on everyday basis: 🔸 Siniša Milatović, PhD, BHR Senior Advisor at UNDP/UNDP B+HR 🔸 Jacqueline Kacprzak, PhD, Counsellor CSR Unit, Head of the Secretariat of the Polish OECD National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct, @Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy of Poland 🔸 Olya Peneva (she/her), BHR Expert and Founder of the BFBHR - Българска фондация за бизнеса и правата на човека (Bulgarian Foundation on Business and Human Rights), Bulgaria 🔸 Murat Karypov, Project officer at the Human Rights Movement Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan. We can't wait! 💛 The Summer Academy is organized by Polski Instytut Praw Człowieka i Biznesu (Polish Institute for Human Rights and Business), Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in partnership with The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights and in collaboration with UNDP B+HR, CEECABHRA and CEE&CA Resource Hub. If you want to learn more see our website: https://lnkd.in/dn3qWEm2