Monday, December 30, 2024

Tag: human rights

This is living up to International Obligations

By Kristina Touzenis, Managing Partner BST-Impact Comments on the proposed DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directive 2013/34/EU, Directive 2004/109/EC, Directive...

Institutional Investors: Human Rights & Due Diligence

The last few weeks and months were dominated by regulatory issues on disclosure and non-financial reporting data. A number of technical indicators were developed...

University of Cape Town (UCT) | Rebuilding and Recreating | Chancellor’s...

As a former student and MBA graduate of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town (UCT) I would like to...

Investor priorities in a post-Covid-19 world | PRI

Presented by Fiona Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer, PRI; Dustin Neuneyer, Head of Germany & Austria; Elise Attal, Head of EU Policy and Susanne Dräger,...

ESG goes towards Human Rights and the Social becomes Concrete. Finally

By Kristina Touzenis, Managing Partner BST-Impact | The COVID-19 pandemic and heightened concerns about climate change, racial injustice, and income inequality have injected fresh urgency into the...

LGIM’s company engagements rise due to COVID-19 and climate change threat

| Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), one of the world’s largest asset managers, has today released its tenth annual ‘Active Ownership’ report. LGIM reveals...

Awareness and attention towards rights and standards

By Kristina Touzenis, Managing Partner BST-Impact | Start with your strategy/policy. Stating that you “work toward the SDGs” and they say that “you make certain...

How Investors can implement rights | Working towards the SDGs with...

INSIGHT by Kristina Touzenis, Managing Partner BST-Impact | It is no longer a shocking notion that non-state actors have a role to play in protecting human...

Social Bond for Impact | Mission-related Investments | Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation was founded in 1936 and currently manages an endowment of USD 13 billion, spending 5 percent per year on grants and...

Labour Rights & Regulation of Less Concern in Asia | Climate...

2020 was a challenging year like no other in most countries globally and the impact of the Covid19 pandemic will be felt throughout 2021....