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Denny’s Shareholders Revolt After Top Exec Concedes $15 Minimum Wage Won’t Hurt Business
Refusing to pay workers a fair living wage is not only immoral, it runs counter to the interest of shareholders.
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RFK Human Rights Named Tramuto Foundation Gala Honoree
Proceeds raised at the gala will celebrate and support RFK Human Rights’ ongoing work, including its Workplace Dignity program.
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ESG: Why Social Investing is the Next Big Thing
Tags Share ESG factors, which measure a company’s commitment to environmental, social, and governance issues, have become critical to understanding a company’s performance. Because of the risks posed by climate change, most metrics have focused on the ‘E.’ But today, the pandemic and growing demands for racial justice have put a greater emphasis on the…
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Texas: Why We Oppose HB 20
HB 20’s mandated use of pretrial risk assessment tools would funnel even more Black, Brown, and low-income people into Texas’s overcrowded jails.
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RFK Human Rights Partners With Skytop Strategies
The new partnership further extends RFK Human Rights’ global network, engaging a new community of business leaders on practices that prioritize the public good.
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How Private Equity Can Help Corporate America Keep its Diversity Pledges
Private equity firms and the investors who back them are in a unique position to help companies diversify their boards, c-suites, and cubicles.
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RFK Human Rights Statement on the Derek Chauvin Verdict
George Floyd’s murder and trial have made more Americans aware of the racism deeply embedded in our nation’s policing, but we call for lasting systemic change.
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Fashion and consumption
Tags Share With fast fashion’s status as the second most polluting industry (second only to the oil industry) and its 2.1 billion tons of annual carbon emissions making up at least 4% of the world’s total, the environmental impact our clothes have on the planet can’t be overlooked. While efforts to move towards sustainability have…
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Arctic
Tags Share Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at three times the global average, resulting in drastic impacts on local communities, especially indigenous groups. Rising sea levels, extreme temperature events, and depletion of natural resources have resulted in a human rights crisis. The Arctic Council, comprised of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and…
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Climate change
Tags Share Human-caused climate change is impacting communities all around the world, resulting in devastating effects such as intense heat waves, wildfires, worsening storms and flooding, and glacial melt. Certain communities such as children, older adults, communities of color, and low-income communities are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For example, many organizations…
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Coral reefs
Tags Share A key aspect of the Speak Truth To Power program is the central idea of human rights defenders. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals also embraces this idea of the impact of the individual person. Of course, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are meant to be achieved by Member States as a whole by…
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Solar panels
Tags Share To avert the worst effects of climate change, consensus among scientists and policymakers is to limit the long‐term increase in average global temperatures to 1.5 °C, which in turn entails reducing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to net zero by 2050. Ending reliance on fossil fuels and investing in renewable sources of energy…
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