Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment
Human Rights
Mission: Human Rights Principles overarch all our corporate responsibility initiatives. We work to ensure that corporations adopt and implement policies and practices that respect, promote and protect the human rights of all within their areas of activity and sphere of influence.
“Protect, Respect and Remedy”
On June 16, 2011 the UN Human Rights Council adopted the “Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights,” which operationalize the UN “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework.
Under the Guiding Principles governments have the primary responsibility to protect human rights and corporations have obligations to respect human rights in their operations. The Framework and Guiding Principles are valuable tools for shareholders to hold corporations accountable for developing human rights policies that provide for impact assessment of their operations, monitoring, community engagement and a grievance mechanism.
NWCRI & ICCR dialogues on Human Rights
- Cisco Systems: freedom of expression and privacy in the internet
- Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group: prisoners and detainees
- Caterpillar: US and international operations
- Halliburton: policy for operations in 70 countries
- Walmart: global supply chain
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