In the media

Right way to riches – The Tablet

August 2010

While ethical investment funds still amount to only a tenth of the market, many of the concerns that underpin this sector of the industry, such as climate change, energy and pay levels, are now increasingly being championed by the mainstream...

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Keeping the faith – Shared Interest

Summer 2010 

Sally Reith, Shared Interest Supporter Relations Officer for the South East, interviewed Miles Litvinoff, Coordinator of ECCR, to find out more about the organisation and how he sees the relationship with Shared Interest growing...

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Churches aspire to ethical investment – Financial News

April 2010 ­

Christian investors have been holding their heads high of late, and not just because last week they were celebrating Easter, the most important period in their religious calendar. They had a relatively good financial crisis ... The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility, a voluntary coalition of church-based investors and ethical asset managers, has seen Co-operative Financial Services and Triodos Bank join its ranks ....

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Christian ethicists slam company in which churches have largest shareholding - Ekklesia

February 2010

As Shell faces a lawsuit in the Netherlands over alleged oil pollution in Nigeria, and a fresh challenge over plans to drill for billions of barrels of oil in the Arctic's environmentally sensitive frozen waters, a new report published today argues that the oil giant can and should take both prompt and longer-term action to reduce the negative social and environmental impacts of its operations in the Niger Delta ...

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Gangmasters need tighter controls – Church Times

November 2009

Migrant workers are still struggling in subhuman conditions, says Richard Harries. When 23 Chinese cockle-pickers were drowned in Morecambe Bay in February 2004, the country was alerted to the existence of gangmasters. These gangmasters recruited vulnerable workers - mainly migrants, both legal and illegal - with great scope for abuse...

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Columban priest tackles a mining giant - Independent Catholic News

November 2009

A Columban priest has challenged the environmental and human rights record of the world’s biggest mining company at its recent AGM on 29 October. Attending alongside other justice and peace activists and indigenous Wayuu people from Colombia, he called on BHP Billiton to respect the human rights of local people in mining areas around the world. Also, to care for water, air and biodiversity which are often polluted by large scale mining, thus destroying livelihoods ...

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Report urges companies to care for vulnerable workers – Church Times

June 2009

Supermarkets and food manufacturers should do more to reduce the injustice experienced by vulnerable migrant workers in the food-production process, the latest report of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility recommends. Vulnerable Migrant Workers: The responsibility of business urges companies that use migrant workers, often in seasonal or temporary jobs, to accept their moral responsibility towards these members of the "flexible" labour force ...

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What is the economy for? - Church of Ireland Gazette

April 2009

The 'Companies, Communities and Religious Investors' conference on socially responsible investment, organised primarily by ECCR, was attended by 80 people at All Hallows, Dublin, on 5th March. It was not about the current world financial crisis per se but about the impact the economic world makes on people and how we, as Christians, should respond ...

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Halt mining in the Philippines says new report - Ekklesia

February 2009

A report launched today in the UK will call for a moratorium on new mining in the Philippines. Supported by UK Bishops and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, it will urge a review of existing mining projects and a withdrawal of international investment in mining until 'proper procedures' are in place to protect human rights and the environment...

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'Champion needed' for migrant workers - Church Times

November 2008

The UK is failing to protect its large numbers of migrant workers, who remain vulnerable to exploitation and poor working conditions, delegates at a debate organised by the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) heard last week...

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Ecumenical guide for shareholders on ethical investments launched

August 2008

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Shareholders wanti­ng thei­r investments to match their beliefs now have an additional tool to help them do so. ECCR has publish­ed a booklet, Investment and Engaging with Companies: A Guide for Faith Communities...

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Water: the most essential resource of all - Methodist Recorder

May 2008

Helen Boothroyd examines a new report from the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility...

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Christian corporate responsibility groups join forces – Ekklesia

February 2008

Two organisations with strong church support who have been working to call business and financial institutions to the bar of social responsibility have joined forces, and will redouble their efforts in promoting ethical investment...­

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Helen Boothroyd writes about ECCR's work in Coracle

February 2008

Coracle, the magazine of the Iona Community (www.iona.org.uk/coracle.php), features an article by Church and Membership Relations Officer Helen Boothroyd about ECCR's mission, origins, and recent and current work...

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Church group examines 'water-thirsty' industries - Christian Today

­­­September 2007

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­A church lobby group that seeks to influence corporate business behaviour in Britain and Ireland is turning its attention to the issue of water, which the group says now affects regions once thought to have plentiful supplies ...

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