During his interview with the FT (February 23), Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put proclaimed that investors do not “morally care” if groups stay in Russia, reducing a diverse and engaged group of corporate stakeholders to an amoral monolith. Investors from the US, the UK, Australasia and the EU have consistently indicated their concern

Sam Jones, Rich Stazinski, and Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt (Investor Alliance for Human Rights) explore investor responses to the Russian war against Ukraine in Cambridge University’s Business and Human Rights Journal.  Following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, many investors responded by unloading their Russian sovereign debt holdings. However, data from Bloomberg show that at the

The ten year anniversary of the UNGPs comes at a time when investors are increasingly answering this clarion call, prioritizing human rights risks in conflict-affected areas like Myanmar, encouraging companies to prevent and mitigate human rights risks in these areas, and making rights-respecting decisions concerning their own portfolios. Related posts: Open letter on Chevron’s business