Religious Investors Win SEC Fight Over Indigenous Rights Resolution at banks

The Race for the Arctic Is Undermining Indigenous Rights

The Arctic region is becoming a theater for competition between states over its resources and geopolitical advantages. This is having a deeply harmful impact on the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, whose way of life doesn’t fit in with state borders. Sámi people herd reindeer in Lapland, Finland. (In Pictures Ltd. / Corbis via Getty Images) The Russian attack on Ukraine has had major consequences thousands of miles from the battlefields. Since…

Religious investors win SEC fight over bank resolution on Indigenous rights - Stand.earth

The SEC also rejected Wells Fargo’s attempt to stop a similar resolution going before its shareholders, which has been filed by the American Home Baptist Mission Societies. Citi filed a no-action letter at the SEC stating the resolution should be dropped since it had already implemented it – by publishing a report last year on risks to Indigenous rights. But the SEC rejected the report and met shareholders’ demands, stating: “based on the inform…

Religious Investors Win SEC Fight Over Indigenous Rights Resolution at banks

“We, the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon, have lived through ecological devastation, witnessed decades of pollution, and faced repeated threats to our self-determination due to spills caused by oil companies like Petroperú and their financiers, such as Citi." The post Religious Investors Win SEC Fight Over Indigenous Rights Resolution at banks first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Inaccessibility to modern medical care and birth control, lack of education or guidance on sexuality, difficulty in routine examinations to prevent cervical or breast cancer are the main violations identified by indigenous women who have originated in their sexual rights.