“Faith-Based Investors Support National Legislation Mandating Corporate Disclosures on Trafficking, Slavery Risks” – Sustainable Brands – July 30, 2015

On July 30, 2015 Sustainable Brands reported that “(t)he Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of 300 investors with assets under management of over $100 billion, along with Calvert Investments and Christian Brothers Investment Services, commend Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) for this week’s introduction of The Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2015 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was introduced following Monday’s publication of the State Department’s 2015 Trafficking in Persons report, which called on governments to ‘set clear expectations for businesses on human rights issues and adopt policies that promote greater transparency and better reporting on anti-trafficking efforts in supply chains.’”

You may read the article on the Sustainable Brands internet site.