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 ID: 277923
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Human Rights and Investing
Linking Our Integrity and Our Power
to Bring about Positive Change Slide2
Defining Integrity
-
When what we are doing
- What we are supposed to be doing
- What we want to do
……
all matchSlide3
Core Question:
How do we know
if what we are doing
is what we are supposed to be doing?Slide4
Learning to Recognize
the Gift of JoySlide5
Living with the Energy of UrgencySlide6
SRI - Socially Responsible Investing
Takes what we believe
Applies it to our investments
Takes what we believe
And allows it to expand
our understanding of Human RightsSlide7
Declaration of Human Rights
Contains 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 communitySlide8
Economica:
Rights associated with daily life
Rights associated with income, the ability to support oneself and one’s familySlide9
Economica:
Rights associated with food and
nutrition
Rights associated with clothing and protection from the weatherSlide10
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 livingSlide11
Violation of the Economica
Suffering often equal to suffering resulting from violations of the Exotica
Revealed in infant mortality rates, increased outbreaks of disease, lowered life expectancies, etc. Slide12
Economica
Key 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
Slide13
Without respect for the
E
conomica
The value of the person is only in his/her productivity
Thus making the worker, a person, a mere extension of the machineSlide14
Socially Responsible Investing
Examines the policies, programs and practices of
individual companies and industries
Through the Lens of Human Rights, especially the EconomicaSlide15
To Understand
A
Policy
A Program
A Practice
We Need to Ask: Who Benefits? Cui Bono?Slide16
Example: Sustainability
Question: Who Benefits?
Who is being sustained?
What is being sustained?
And who
decides? Slide17
If companies have a sustainability program
Who and what are being sustained?
And who decides?
We need to ask for each company and each industrySlide18
So if companies have a
human rights
p
olicy
Are the economica included and protected along with the exotica?
Are the workers, their families and their communities being sustained?Slide19
SRI
Is about being willing to ask questions
Is about willing to work to find answersSlide20
What keeps us going in the work
The 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 doingSlide21
“The only thing required for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing”
Edmund BurkeSlide22
“It is not required that we complete the task,
But neither are we free to abandon it
Pirkei
Avot