Celebration without exploitation: Working for an exploitation free Olympics
ECCR is calling for companies to strengthen their focus against human trafficking and modern slavery in advance of London 2012. Read more
Hotels, Sex Trafficking and London 2012
This leaflet outlines how FTSE listed hotel companies can become implicated in sex trafficking, what hotel groups Whitbread and Intercontinental Hotel Group are doing to respond and how ethical investors can address this issue.
Update: The International Tourism Partnership (ITP) of whom both InterContinental Hotels Group and Whitbread are members has recently released a position statement on human trafficking. For more information read our update document.
November 2011, London
ECCR's Open Debate 2011 explored the threats and opportunities for vulnerable workers, the living wage, trafficking, sexual exploitation, and human rights and labour brought into focus by the 2012 London Olympics with panel speakers Stella Creasy MP; Catherine Howarth, FairPensions; Kevin Hyland, Metropolitan Police; Sasha Rakoff, OBJECT; Bill Seddon, Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church and an audience of about 130 people.
The Banks and Society: Rebuilding Trust
Banks should address full range of responsibility concerns says new report
'A great resource... to get people thinking about the moral issues involved' - Rev. Dr Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral
ECCR's most recent report discusses concerns arising from banks' direct and indirect impacts on customers, employees, and local and national communities at home and abroad.
Issues covered include financial exclusion, responsible credit, project financing, lobbying, money laundering, tax avoidance, developing country debt, commodity speculation, risk management and remuneration.
Shell in the Niger Delta: A Framework for Change
This report documents, and provides an update on, the social and environmental impacts of the operations of Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), and explores what needs to change.
Philippines: Mining or Food?
This latest report from the Working Group on Mining in the Philippines shows how mining is causing large-scale ruin of environments and livelihoods and particularly undermining food production.
Investment and Engaging with Companies: A Guide for Faith Communities
ECCR's user-friendly 30-page Guide aims to support church members, faith communities and other responsible investors in influencing companies on the basis of Christian and ethical values.
