| | Vanessa Zimmerman has launched Pillar Two, a consultancy that will assist companies with human rights policy development and risk management, as well as assisting with human rights and Modern Slavery reporting. |
| | | Future Super has divested from listed companies that do not have women on their boards or who have not presented plans to improve their diversity. |
| | | Australia lags Western democracies in its domestic implementation of international human rights commitments, and business plays an important role in the protection of human rights, according to Gillian Triggs, former president of the Australian Human ... |
| | | NZ Super Fund will divest from $19 million of investments in companies involved in the manufacture of civilian automatic and semi-automatic firearms, magazines or parts prohibited under New Zealand's tough new gun law. |
| | | A coalition of more than 80 US-based grassroots organisations are protesting US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention through a campaign targeting banks JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo for providing debt financing for two for-profit ... |
| | | With the recent introduction of the Modern Slavery Bill to Parliament, companies with annual turnover of $100 million are in line to report annually on their actions to address modern slavery in operations and the supply chain. |
| | | Men who want to work flexibly "face high levels of discrimination," according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). |
| | | Australian Millennials' opinion of business' motivation and ethics has dropped to its lowest levels since 2014, according to the 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey. |
| | | Australian Ethical Investment has opened its 2018 community grants program and is inviting organisations to apply for a portion of the $300,000 in total to be awarded. |
| | | Pollinate Energy, a social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is merging with U.S. based Empower Generation, creating a combined social enterprise that will operate in India and Nepal. |
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| WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE Note: This piece was contributed by Warwick Peel of IdeaScale and Gordon Noble of GNBK, and solely reflect the writers' opinions. | SIMON O'CONNOR, JACKI JOHNSON Note: This piece was contributed by Jacki Johnson and Simon O'Connor, co-chairs of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative and solely reflect the writers' opinions. | | RACHEL ALEMBAKIS Companies' social license to operate and wider stakeholder concerns are core governance considerations during this AGM season in Australia. | RACHEL ALEMBAKIS Editorial note: This piece is sponsored by T. Rowe Price Integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) information into high yield strategies can augment risk analysis, although there are challenges in finding information about private sector issuers. |
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