On April 7, 2021, Heartland, along with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and investors representing $1 trillion in assets under management, urged Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program and align with the standards set by its major industry peers. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the inadequacy of Wendy’s current approach, as several of

Heartland and more than 150 civil society organizations and concerned individuals called on Chevron and its partners to use their ownership stakes in joint ventures with the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) to ensure that payments of royalties and other revenues are not made to MOGE. Instead, companies should make revenue payments into protected

Heartland joined Human Rights Watch and 95 other human rights and good governance organizations in urging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to consistently and formally incorporate anti-corruption measures into its COVID-19 pandemic-related emergency funding. In a letter to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, the organizations called on the IMF to take concrete steps to empower

As part of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights’ “Technology & Human Rights: Salient Risk Briefings” series, Heartland co-authored a briefing on conflict and security in the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) sector, which provides tailored guidance to investors engaging tech companies for addressing human rights- and conflict-related risks.  Related posts: Heartland Joins the Global