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Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... an unacceptable risk to members' future retirement savings for the potential return. The decision signalled that human rights concerns are linked to financial returns of this stock in the fund's estimation. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... identified resource use, waste and e-waste, energy efficiency and carbon emissions, ethics, values and governance, human rights, sustainable procurement and conflict minerals as potential sustainability impacts across its supply chain. More broadly ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
KPMG Australia has bought human rights and social impact consultancy, Banarra. The move brings new human rights and social impact expertise to KPMG Australia, said Adrian King, PMG Australia's partner in charge of climate change and sustainability services. ...

Court back Commonwealth Bank in ACCR case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... shareholders who own and ultimately control companies to hold the company accountable for harm the environment, abuse human rights or engage in other conduct that isn't in the best interests of their shareholders or the community " said Felicity Millner ...

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark issues draft indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) has developed draft indicators that will be used to rank companies on their human rights performance. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO The draft indicators are out for public consultation, and CHRB plans to use the ...

GRI defines four strategic goals to expand scope

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... enable smart policy that can address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. These include climate change, human rights, corruption and many others." The second priority is to build more reports and better reporting. The third priority is moving ...

Technology to push sustainability reporting forward: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... organisations to "align real-time decision-making processes with their communication on issues such as climate change and human rights," GRI said. This, in turn, will increase corporate accountability, as companies are seen as powerful institutions that ...

Teachers Mutual Bank win AB +F ESG award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... industry across 18 award categories. The ESG criteria for the award include environmental protection, respect for human rights, continuing improvement of working employment conditions, social commitment, responsible attitudes with suppliers and customers ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... "It's the first one we've done as a working group in my time here," he said. "I think there's scope to do more - human rights is a really interesting one, tax is another one that springs to mind. Issues that would benefit from a multi-team working group ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... started this process, we had Thorn Group and Cash Converters as excluded companies," Walsh said. "We believe, from a human rights perspective, these business models unfairly profit from the poor. Since we've had the engagement group going, we've become ...