Addresses human rights in supply chain
4 campaigns on this issue
- Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples' Sovereignty against widening the UN binding treaty's scope, 2024Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples' Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity · Corporate lobbies at the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on transnational corporations and human rights; no individual company named · 2024 · The Global Campaign published a paper on 13 December 2024, around the tenth session of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group, arguing that widening the instrument to all businesses, including state-run enterprises with no transnational character, would severely undermine it. The paper reads Human Rights Council Resolution 26/9 against the corporate reading: its phrase 'other business enterprises' is defined in a footnote as enterprises with a transnational character, which excludes businesses operating only within national borders.
- ICCR and allied investors on a living wage for U.S. workers, from 2023Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility · U.S. companies collectively, with the emphasis on low-wage retail, restaurant, hospitality and gig sectors · 2023 · The statement, 'Investor Support for a Living Wage for U.S. Workers', was released on 14 November 2023 and has over 125 signatories representing over 4 trillion US dollars in assets. It remains open, with the coalition accepting new signatories on a rolling basis.
- The Humane Society of the United States at Casey's General Stores on disclosing its supplier code and responsible sourcing policies, 2023Humane World for Animals (formerly The Humane Society of the United States) · Casey's General Stores · 2023 · Not approved at the annual meeting of 6 September 2023, as Proposal 5: 5,655,617 votes for, 25,728,667 against, 350,395 abstentions and 2,979,736 broker non-votes, as certified in Casey's Item 5.07 Form 8-K. That is 18.0 percent of the shares voted for and against, or 17.8 percent if abstentions are counted in the base.
- ShareAction and ten investors at Sainsbury's on the real Living Wage, 2022ShareAction · Sainsbury's · 2022 · 16.7 percent of investors voted for it at the annual general meeting on 7 July 2022, with a further 2.6 percent abstaining. It was the United Kingdom's first Living Wage resolution, tabled by ten investors managing 2.2 trillion pounds, among them the country's largest asset manager and its largest workplace pension scheme, alongside 108 individual shareholders. The Sainsbury's board and both major proxy advisers, Glass Lewis and ISS, urged investors to vote against it.
Organizations working on this
Adrian Dominican Sisters
The congregation's Portfolio Advisory Board co-filed a climate proposal at Meta asking how the company will meet its climate targets given AI and data center growth, which drew 22.3 percent independent shareholder support.
American Baptist Home Mission Society
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Tyson Foods and The Hershey Company between 2017 and 2021.
Amnesty International
Directs advocacy at investors rather than filing resolutions: it published letters to pension funds about their exposure to NSO Group spyware, and has called on venture capital firms to carry out human rights due diligence.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Takes part in shareholder campaigns. It appears in campaigns at Wendy's in 2021.
Domini Impact Investments
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 9 companies, among them CVS and Nike between 2021 and 2023.
Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, NY
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Wendy's in 2021.
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Walmart in 2022.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
The coalition at the center of faith-based shareholder advocacy in the United States for over fifty years, coordinating member institutions' engagements and resolutions.
Investor Advocates for Social Justice
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Wendy's in 2021.
Investor Alliance for Human Rights
Signs on to shareholder campaigns other investors lead. It has signed on at 14 companies, among them Amazon and Yandex in 2025.
KnowTheChain
Does not file shareholder resolutions. It does two other things that count separately: it publishes forced-labor supply-chain benchmarks that ranked companies' investors use as evidence when they engage or file, and it co-organizes with the Investor Alliance for Human Rights an investor statement that investors are invited to sign to demonstrate commitment to addressing forced labor. Its stated leverage is transparency and reputational risk, not proxy voting.
Mercy Investment Services
Co-files shareholder resolutions led by other investors. It has co-filed at 12 companies, among them 71 companies in the food and PepsiCo between 2019 and 2025.
Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Campaigns on shareholder votes, for example a press release headed 'P&G Board Members Face Shareholder Vote Over Forest Destruction in Supply Chain', and appears in a notice of exempt solicitation filed with the SEC.
Office of the New York State Comptroller and the New York State Common Retirement Fund
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name.
Oxfam International
Files shareholder resolutions. In November 2013 Oxfam filed a resolution at PepsiCo, alongside the AFL-CIO, Trillium Asset Management and other investors representing more than 1.4 trillion dollars in assets, asking the board to publish an annual report on land rights in the company's supply chains and to adopt a zero tolerance policy on land rights violations. In March 2014 PepsiCo committed to five actions on land rights, including following free, prior and informed consent, disclosing its top suppliers and commissioning third-party assessments in its major sourcing countries.
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at Dine Brands Global and IHOP) in 2022.