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| Animal Welfare 2006 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the sponsor of over 20 shareholder resolutions for 2006, asked companies that use animals as food or in laboratory experiments to reconsider their relationships to animals, and to promote animal welfare. This report examines the shareholder campaign and the status of animal welfare regulation. | | Bioengineering 2006 Recent advances in scientific understanding of DNA have enabled the creation of bioengineered organisms with characteristics that could not have been achieved through traditional breeding, but critics worry that bioegineered plants may threaten the environment and harm humans. |
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| Board Diversity 2006 The numbers of director seats held by women and members of racial minorities at U.S. publicly traded companies are still low in comparison with their representation in the nation's overall work force or in management positions. Moreover, while the percentage of women directors has risen slightly at the S&P Super 1500, the percentage of minority directors has remained flat for the last two years. | | Environmental Management and Reporting 2006 This background report summarizes the 33 shareholder proposals that were filed in 2006 on four broad environmental topics—hazardous chemicals, recycling, water use and land use. |
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| Equal Employment Opportunity 2006 Led by New York City, public pension funds and social investors have played a prominent role in pressuring companies to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in their workplaces, and they were active again in 2006. | | Executive Pay and Links to Social Performance 2006 In 2006, for the 13th year, shareholder groups asked boards of directors to study and report on executive compensation, and to consider alternative ways to link compensation to corporate financial and social performance. |
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| Fair Employment in Northern Ireland 2006 Concerns about fair employment and other equality matters are central issues in the continuing search for a lasting solution to Northern Ireland's political conflict. Irish Americans and others worried about employment discrimination against Catholics in Northern Ireland have championed a code of conduct for firms operating there called the MacBride principles. | | Global Climate Change 2006 For the 17th year, concerned shareholders in 2006 asked companies for information about their plans to address global warming and their response to emerging government efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| Global Labor Standards 2006 During the 1990s, several major U.S. apparel retailers and manufacturers were found to have sweatshop conditions—including incidents of child and forced labor—in their supplier factories, prompting concerns about, and investigations into, other labor-intensive industries. | | Human Rights 2006 Shareholder activists have asked companies for more than three decades about their impact on human rights. As this report examines, proponents of corporate responsibility have urged corporations to respect international human rights standards wherever they operate—and particularly in countries without democratically elected governments or where legal and regulatory constraints are weak. |
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| Political Contributions and Related Issues 2006 Over the last several years, money raised by U.S. Democratic and Republican candidates has grown steadily, despite the passage in 2002 of a major campaign finance reform initiative, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), also known as McCain-Feingold after its sponsors in the U.S. Senate. | | Sustainability Reporting 2006 In recent years, a number of developments have sparked public interest in “sustainability” or “sustainable development”—meeting the needs of the present without com-promising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs—as a goal for both countries and corporations. |
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