Linking Our Integrity and Our Power to Bring about Positive Change.
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Transcript of Linking Our Integrity and Our Power to Bring about Positive Change.
Defining Integrity
- When what we are doing
- What we are supposed to be doing
- What we want to do
……all match
SRI - Socially Responsible InvestingTakes what we believe
Applies it to our investments
Takes what we believe
And allows it to expand
our understanding of Human Rights
Declaration of Human RightsContains two major groups of issues:
Exotica: Those issues we hope no one ever has to deal with or encounter: torture, abuse, unlawful imprisonment, etc.
Economica: Those rights which affect the daily life of the person, the family and the community
Economica:Rights associated with daily life
Rights associated with income, the ability to support oneself and one’s family
Economica:Rights associated with food and nutrition
Rights associated with clothing and protection from the weather
Economica:Rights associated with education and access to
social systems
Rights associated with having a home, employment, and ability to earn enough for a decent standard of living
Violation of the EconomicaSuffering often equal to suffering resulting from
violations of the Exotica
Revealed in infant mortality rates, increased outbreaks of disease, lowered life expectancies, etc.
EconomicaKey issues are income and
the resulting purchasing power
Economica allow persons, families ad communities - to have control over their lives,- to plan for the future
Without respect for the Economica
- The value of the person is only in his/her productivity
- Thus making the worker, a person, a mere extension of the machine
Socially Responsible Investing
Examines the policies, programs and practices of
individual companies and industries
Through the Lens of Human Rights, especially the Economica
Example: SustainabilityQuestion: Who Benefits?
Who is being sustained?
What is being sustained?
And who decides?
If companies have a sustainability program
Who and what are being sustained?
And who decides?
We need to ask for each company and each industry
So if companies have a human rights policy
Are the economica included and protected along with the exotica?
Are the workers, their families and their communities being sustained?
What keeps us going in the workThe energy of urgency: the lives of real people and
families are impacted by our work
We are able to see beyond just ourselves
The joy of our work…knowing it is the right work to be doing
“The only thing required for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing”
Edmund Burke