Human Rights

Corporate impacts on communities and human-rights due diligence.

29 campaigns on this issue

• Investor Advocates for Social Justice and 51 investors at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics and RTX, 2026
  Investor Advocates for Social Justice · Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing · 2026 · Letters signed by 52 investors representing over USD 145 billion in assets under management or advisement went to the boards of the five companies on 2 July 2026, seeking a meeting and a reply by 20 July 2026.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on tying executive pay to child safety, 2026
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2026 · Proposal Ten at the annual meeting of 27 May 2026, not approved: 169,180,929 votes for, 4,776,963,503 against, 22,532,654 abstentions and 212,856,564 broker non-votes.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2025
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2025 · Not approved at the 28 May 2025 annual meeting, as Proposal Nine: 669,263,526 votes for, 4,314,033,460 against, 10,306,035 abstentions and 204,772,865 broker non-votes, about 13.4 percent of the shares voted for and against.
• Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at Lockheed Martin
  Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia · Lockheed Martin · 2025 · Not approved at the 9 May 2025 annual meeting: 15,949,706 votes for, 146,087,030 against, 4,113,455 abstentions and 36,684,562 broker non-votes, as certified in Lockheed Martin's Item 5.07 Form 8-K.
• Investor Alliance for Human Rights (coalition statement) at Amazon, Apple, X, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, Samsung, Kakao, VK, and Yandex (14 companies)
  Investor Alliance for Human Rights · Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. · 2025 · Not a shareholder vote, so there is no vote result. The statement responded to the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Big Tech Index, which scored 14 companies and found that for the third time no company scored above 50%. Two companies' scores fell, X most sharply in the index's history, and Microsoft took the top place without having improved its score since 2022.
• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility members at six drugmakers on patents and access, 2024
  Trinity Health · AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Gilead Sciences · 2024 · Not approved where it reached a vote. AbbVie, 3 May 2024: 315,426,248 for, 941,651,498 against, 17,953,817 abstaining and 245,929,517 broker non-votes. Eli Lilly, 6 May 2024: 68,370,561 for, 699,538,270 against, 6,506,288 abstaining and 82,256,109 broker non-votes. At the other four companies it did not reach a vote.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2024
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2024 · Not approved at the 29 May 2024 annual meeting: 925,650,012 votes for, 4,088,656,336 against, 10,232,329 abstentions and 204,808,280 broker non-votes, as certified in Meta's Item 5.07 Form 8-K. The lead filer puts that at 18.5 percent of the vote, and a majority of 59.1 percent of the vote not controlled by management, because Meta's dual class structure gives the chief executive ten votes a share.
• Society of Jesus, USA East Province (Bryan Pham) at GEO Group
  USA East Province of the Society of Jesus · GEO Group · 2024 · No vote was held. The priests submitted the proposal in November and a GEO attorney told regulators in a December 30 letter that the proponents' claims were false and misleading and that the company would not put the proposal to shareholders. GEO's 2026 annual meeting, on April 28, 2026, carried only the directors, the auditor and the say-on-pay vote, and no shareholder proposal. An SEC policy change that November had made it easier for companies to skip such votes without waiting for the regulator's blessing.
• Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples' Sovereignty against widening the UN binding treaty's scope, 2024
  Global 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.
• Catherine Donnelly Foundation at Amazon on freedom of association, 2024
  Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Amazon.com Inc. · 2024 · Not approved at the 22 May 2024 annual meeting, as Item 12 on the proxy: 2,398,484,693 for, 5,141,991,512 against, 51,835,210 abstaining and 1,260,267,192 broker non-votes, which is 31.8 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2024
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2024 · Proposal Eleven at the annual meeting of 29 May 2024, not approved: 925,650,012 votes for, 4,088,656,336 against, 10,232,329 abstentions and 204,808,280 broker non-votes.
• School Sisters of Notre Dame Cooperative Investment Fund at Northrop Grumman on political activities and human rights, 2023
  School Sisters of Notre Dame Collective Investment Fund · Northrop Grumman · 2023 · 20.0 percent in favor at the May 17, 2023 annual meeting: 24,027,963 for, 95,937,437 against, 1,728,014 abstentions and 13,719,402 broker non-votes. It was Proposal 6 on the ballot and was not approved.
• Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace at Citigroup on Indigenous Peoples' rights, 2023
  Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace · Citigroup · 2023 · Not approved at the April 25, 2023 annual meeting: 402,974,154 for, 878,173,432 against, 16,234,292 abstentions and 220,401,106 broker non-votes. That is 31.1 percent of the shares voted for, against or abstaining, the basis on which the campaign was reported as 31.06 percent, and 31.4 percent of the votes cast for and against. It was item 8 on the ballot.
• Adrian Dominican Sisters at Amazon
  Adrian Dominican Sisters · Amazon.com Inc. · 2023 · Voted on as Item 8 at the annual meeting on May 24, 2023 and not approved. Amazon's Form 8-K reports 754,724,764 votes for, 6,436,676,008 against, 177,009,074 abstaining and 1,298,652,951 broker non-votes. That is 10.49 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 10.24 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• Mercy Investment Services at Meta Platforms
  Mercy Investment Services · Meta Platforms · 2023 · Voted on as Proposal Five at the annual meeting on May 31, 2023 and not approved. Meta's Form 8-K reports 845,051,262 votes for, 4,119,907,712 against, 70,270,779 abstaining and 223,805,267 broker non-votes. That is 17.02 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 16.78 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• New York City Retirement Systems and co-filers at Starbucks on freedom of association, 2023
  Office of the New York City Comptroller and the New York City pension funds · Starbucks Corporation · 2023 · Approved at the 23 March 2023 annual meeting as Proposal 8: 418,792,991 for, 386,056,422 against, 10,661,648 abstaining and 152,169,391 broker non-votes, which is 52.0 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2023
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2023 · Proposal Eleven at the annual meeting of 31 May 2023, not approved: 817,020,915 votes for, 4,202,589,505 against, 15,619,333 abstentions and 223,805,267 broker non-votes.
• Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at Chevron
  Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia · Chevron Corporation · 2022 · Not approved, but close: 657,196,358 votes for (47.5 percent) and 727,194,005 against (52.5 percent), with 20,231,593 abstentions and 255,146,992 broker non-votes, as Proposal 9 at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting.
• SEIU Pension Plans Master Trust at Wells Fargo
  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) · Wells Fargo · 2022 · Rejected as Proposal 10 at the April 26, 2022 annual meeting: 1,033,495,599 for, 1,828,552,352 against, 29,764,513 abstentions and 361,311,531 broker non-votes, which Wells Fargo reported as 35.74 percent of the votes cast for, against and abstaining. Excluding abstentions that is the 36 percent American Banker reported, up from 13 percent in 2021.
• Oxfam America at Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson on COVID-19 vaccine access
  Oxfam America · Moderna, Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson · 2022 · All three proposals were voted down at meetings held on 28 April 2022. Moderna's Proposal 4 drew 70,878,392 votes for and 227,007,857 against, with 1,518,730 abstentions and 34,671,090 broker non-votes, which is 23.8% of the votes cast for and against. Pfizer's Item 6 drew 1,023,141,083 for and 2,714,524,824 against, or 27.4%. Johnson & Johnson's Item 8 drew 616,715,019 for and 1,207,732,861 against, or 33.8%. Oxfam put the Moderna figure at 24 percent of the nominal vote and 29 percent of the independent vote, once the 17 percent held by the company's directors and senior executives is set aside, and said it was the first time shareholders had voted for a resolution of this kind on any company proxy ballot.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child sexual exploitation online, 2022
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2022 · Proposal Eleven at the annual meeting of 25 May 2022, not approved: 910,386,444 votes for, 4,358,740,887 against, 18,979,089 abstentions and 244,034,088 broker non-votes.
• Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood at PNC Financial Services on financing nuclear weapons, 2021
  Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood · PNC Financial Services · 2021 · 7.95 percent in favor at the April 27, 2021 annual meeting: 26,540,293 for, 307,230,915 against, 6,159,791 abstentions and 34,770,252 broker non-votes. It was item 4 on the ballot and was not approved. Investor Advocates for Social Justice reported it as 7.9 percent.
• American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, Private Equity Stakeholder Project, SEIU Local 925 (investor engagement, not a proxy vote) at Endeavour Capital / Aladdin Bail Bonds
  American Civil Liberties Union · Endeavour Capital / Aladdin Bail Bonds · 2020 · Endeavour Capital exited its investment in Aladdin Bail Bonds in early 2020, after months of outreach to Endeavour's investors by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, the ACLU, Color of Change, SEIU Local 925 and others.
• Church of England Pensions Board at Boards of mining companies operating in Australia and internationally
  Church of England Pensions Board · Boards of mining companies operating in Australia and internationally · 2020 · Signed by 64 investors and their representatives holding 10.2 trillion US dollars in assets under management, and sent to the boards of mining companies operating in Australia and internationally.
• Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility at BHP
  Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility · BHP · 2020 · Withdrawn before the annual general meetings
• Harrington Investments at Amazon
  Harrington Investments, Inc. · Amazon.com Inc. · 2019 · Rejected at the May 22, 2019 annual meeting: 94,208,150 for, 239,591,730 against, 8,203,512 abstaining and 85,151,704 broker non-votes, so about 28 percent of the shares voted for or against it were in favour.
• Society of Jesus, USA West Province (Jesuits West) (Rev. Bryan Pham) at GEO Group
  USA West Province of the Society of Jesus · GEO Group · 2019 · Passed at the May 7, 2019 annual meeting with 89,129,403 votes for, 12,271,605 against, 2,054,540 abstaining and 8,631,698 broker non-votes, which the filers reported as 88 percent support. GEO's board had opposed the resolution and then reversed course, telling the SEC its position had evolved.
• USA West Province of the Society of Jesus at The GEO Group on human rights reporting, 2019
  USA West Province of the Society of Jesus · The GEO Group, Inc. · 2019 · Approved at the May 7, 2019 annual meeting: 89,129,403 for, 12,271,605 against, 2,054,540 abstentions and 8,631,698 broker non-votes, which is 87.9 percent of the votes cast for and against. ICCR and the filers reported it as 88 percent support. GEO had asked the SEC for permission to leave the proposal out of its proxy on four grounds, Rule 14a-8(i)(2), (i)(3), (i)(6) and (i)(7), and the staff declined to concur on any of them, finding that the proposal transcends ordinary business matters.
• Human Rights Defense Center (Alex Friedmann) at CoreCivic
  Human Rights Defense Center · CoreCivic · 2018 · Kept off the ballot. CoreCivic asked the SEC for permission to exclude the resolution, arguing it was vague, misleading, impossible to implement and already substantially complied with, and no stockholder proposal reached a vote: the 2019 proxy statement listed only the directors, the auditor and the say-on-pay vote, and the 8-K for the May 16, 2019 annual meeting reports the same three.

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