Leveraging the Financial Sector

As the ultimate providers of capital, financial actors have great leverage in determining where capital is allocated and ensuring it is used responsibly. Investing for positive social impact and, once invested, holding business accountable for its social risks, are two areas demanding innovative approaches to advance human rights.

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Rights Colab Contributions

Fight Finance With Finance: Campaign to Hold Vanguard Accountable on Climate Investment Risk
By RIGHTS COLAB • March 9, 2023

Is Anti-ESG Just a Bump in the Road?
By Rights CoLab • January 9, 2023

Conversations on DEI Goals
By Rights CoLab • October 26, 2022

What the US Government Can Do to Promote Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
By Joanne Bauer • September 1, 2022

What Is DEI? Market Signals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
By Joanne Bauer with Rashika Choudhary and Anna Nikolova • August 15, 2022

Comments on the Exposure Draft of the ISSB General Requirements for Sustainability-related Financial Information
By Rights CoLab and Partners • July 29, 2022

Inequality has become an investor priority – How human rights advocates can respond
By Joanne Bauer, Paul Rissman • May 24, 2022

Applying Our Data Science Methods to Advance Standard-Setting for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
By Rights CoLab • May 6, 2022

February 2022 Update on Automating Research to Identify Financially Material Human Rights Topics
By RIGHTS COLAB • February 1, 2022

September 2021 Update on Automating Research to Identify Financially Material Human Rights Topics
By Rights CoLab • September 17, 2021

Expert Group Comments on SASB’s Proposed Raw Materials Sourcing in Apparel Project
By Rights CoLab and Partners • September 6, 2021

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Summary Report on Our Project to Strengthen SASB
By Rights CoLab • June 4, 2021

Making Rights Material
By Joanne Bauer • April 23, 2021

March 2021 Update on Automating Research to Identify Financially Material Human Rights Topics
By RIGHTS COLAB • March 12, 2021

Strengthening New Investor Just Transition Tool Would Be a Gamechanger
By Joanne Bauer, Marti Flacks, Paul Rissman • March 11, 2021

Expert Group Comments on SASB’s Human Capital Management Preliminary Framework
By RIGHTS COLAB • February 12, 2021

SASB’s Rise in 2020
By RIGHTS COLAB • January 27, 2021

Evidence of Corporate Risk from Harms to Workers in their Value Chains
By Rights CoLab • January 7, 2021

Comments to SASB Reflecting on Financial Materiality
By Joanne Bauer, Paul Rissman • December 31, 2020

Our Data Science Approach for Improved SASB Standards
By Paul Rissman, Joanne Bauer • September 4, 2020

How Can Investors Improve Social License? Listen to Human Rights Defenders
By Joanne Bauer • July 22, 2020

A Successful Season for SASB-Based Shareholder Resolutions
By Paul Rissman, Andrew Behar • June 14, 2020

It Is Time for a Taskforce on Inequality-Related Financial Disclosures
By Delilah Rothenberg, Paul Rissman, Joanne Bauer • May 5, 2020

Engaging SASB: Civil Society Call to Action – Webinar replay and slides
By Rights CoLab • April 9, 2020

Moving the Market to Support Human Rights: A Four-Part Series on SASB and Corporate Accountability
By Paul Rissman, Joanne Bauer • March 22, 2020

A Civil Society Call to Action: Strengthening SASB Together to Advance Human Rights
By Joanne Bauer, Paul Rissman • March 10, 2020

CSO-Investor Dialogue Table
By Joanne Bauer

BlackRock and the Curious Case of the Poultry Farmer
By Paul Rissman • February 25, 2020

Is BlackRock’s New Messaging on Climate Change a Big Deal? Yes.
By Paul Rissman • February 4, 2020

It’s Time to Defend Against the Corporate Attack on Socially Conscious Shareholders
By Paul Rissman • January 28, 2020

In America’s Boardrooms, the Shareholder Morphs from Protector to Threat
By Paul Rissman • December 18, 2019

New Strategies Help Investors Hold Corporations Accountable on Human Rights
By Gabe Rissman • May 16, 2019

Share-yngitis: Has Your Non-Profit Lost Its Shareholder Voice?
By Paul Rissman • April 16, 2019

Rise of the Shadow ESG Regulators
By Paul Rissman, Diana Kearney • March 5, 2019

How to Tame a Money Manager
By Paul Rissman • February 6, 2019

Improving Corporate Transparency with New Materiality Standards
By Paul Rissman • January 20, 2019

Hong Kong Should Use its Financial Might to Fight Human Trafficking
By Tze-wei Ng • December 7, 2018

Pension Funds and Human Rights
By Business and Human Rights Clinic, led by Joanne Bauer • April 1, 2018

The Future Development Finance and Accountability Landscape: Workshop Summary and Outcomes
By Joanne Bauer • September 1, 2016

Impact Investing Might Help Nonprofits Overseas Asphyxiated by Their Governments
By Edwin Rekosh • February 22, 2016