Heartland is pleased to announce our membership in the Global Network Initiative (GNI) as part of its investor constituency. GNI is the leading multistakeholder forum for accountability, shared learning, and collective advocacy on government and company policies and practices at the intersection of technology and human rights.

On September 19, Heartland board member, friend, and mentor, Patricia (Pat) Zerega received the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s 2024 Legacy Award. For more than 45 years, Pat has dedicated her life and career to serving and speaking out for the “least of these my brothers and sisters.” Her care for the dignity of each

Heartland along with 95 leading human rights and anticorruption nongovernmental organizations called on the U.S. Department of Treasury and the State Department to reverse the declining use of Global Magnitsky sanctions and act on dozens of outstanding civil society recommendations. In these final months of the Biden administration, we urge you to take immediate steps

Heartland is pleased to announce that Rich Stazinski has been named to the U.S. State Department’s newly formed Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. The federal advisory committee will play a critical role in shaping U.S. policy on responsible business conduct.

Heartland, along with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and 77 institutional investors and civil society organizations, urged members of both houses of Congress to oppose a coordinated and well-funded campaign aimed at blocking investors from using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors as a framework for reducing long-term risk. [W]e are living in

Gina Gambetta | Responsible Investor | May 20, 2024 Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the New York City Comptroller, KLP, AP4, AP7, and Storebrand Asset Management have announced plans to support a conflict-affected area shareholder proposal at Mondelez. Related posts: Sustainalytics to Stop Covering Human Rights Issues in ‘Contiguous Territorial Disputes’ Gina Gambetta | Responsible

Jessica DiNapoli | Reuters | May 15, 2024 The resolution requests that the study assess whether the company should take steps to reduce the risks of doing business in Russia and other conflict-affected areas. Such risks include a Russian order that requires companies to facilitate the conscription of staff and consumer backlash, the resolution states.

On February 24, 2022 the Russian Federation launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine, which has since claimed the lives of more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, displaced more than 14 million, and resulted in over $500 billion in economic losses for the country.  The invasion is the most recent act of Russian aggression against Ukraine

Heartland along with 155 civil society organizations and 26 independent experts call on states to implement an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer, and use of surveillance technology. We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent experts, are alarmed at the media revelations that NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations

On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military carried out a coup d’etat against the country’s democratically elected government. The military’s increasingly repressive crackdown against pro-democracy protesters has led to more than 5,000 deaths, including summary executions, and tens of thousands more detained, tortured, and injured. The coup followed the military’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the