Our approach is led by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and includes: conducting human rights due diligence, analysing new human rights data, holding dialogues with the companies in which we invest, raising queries with our asset managers, responding to member queries, policy engagement and participating in knowledge gathering and sharing activities.
Our goal is to steward our investments in a way that encourages socially responsible business conduct and to support the conditions for just, peaceful societies in which individuals and communities can flourish.
The challenge of respecting human rights on a global scale is demanding and hard for any one entity to influence alone. Often – as with many areas of the Pensions Board’s work – we work to address these challenges through collaborating with other responsible investors to amplify our concerns and our potential impact.
We also take the opportunity to inform our engagements and how we identify priorities by analysing information shared by civil society organisations, and sometimes by working in partnership with them too. These efforts work most effectively when they connect with and help to boost the work of advocates within companies who themselves are trying to ensure best practice standards for the customers, communities and workers whose lives their business impacts.
We currently participate in the following initiatives:
Watch our short film
Adam Matthews, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, explains how the Pensions Board is supporting peace building and respect for human rights, though partnerships across investors, business, and through the Anglican Communion.
