In 2011, the United Nations adopted the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – declaring the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in company operations and supply chains and providing a global framework for addressing these often unseen risks to individuals, communities and companies.

As social justice advocates and as investors, SGI members help educate the companies we own about the enormous human, financial and reputational implications when formal human rights policies aren't adopted and these risks aren't properly managed.