Time Warner meets with Presbyterians on human rights issues

At the latest committee meeting of the Mission Responsibility Through Investment members met with Time Warner representative Michelle Crozier to discuss their progress around the development of guidelines for monitoring human rights issues related to products produced for Time-Warner by vendors and factories worldwide.  During the same meeting the committee also passed a motion to remove Citigroup from the list of corporations that stemmed from the 2004 (216th) General Assembly.

MRTI also announced that Target Stores is the first retailer to announce its plans to remove Manhunt Two, an extremely violent video game, from its shelves. Members of the committee, working through Interfaith Center on Corporate Respsonsibilty (ICCR) to achieve this outcome, commended Target Stores for taking this positive step.

Faith-based investing

God's call for justice, compassion and humility requires Presbyterians to respond. We believe a faithful response requires the whole of our lives, including our financial investments.

It is more than a practical question. It gets to the very essence of our faith. It is faith-based investing.

Faith-based investing involves thinking about one's financial resources and investments as part of a faithful life.

Sometimes called "socially responsible investing," faith-based investing is the stewardship of God's resources as entrusted to the church.

A faithful journey

One person's quest to know more about socially responsible investing

Not long ago, the simple, yet disturbing statement, "All shareholders care about is the bottom line," inspired me to become someone whose investments change the world for the better — in other words, a socially responsible investor.

Read this article written by Jacque French in Horizons, July-August 2004.

2007 General Assembly Divestment List

Confirmed By The Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment, Peace and Justice Ministries, General Assembly Council

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) urges divestment and/or proscription of some corporations due to their involvement in military-related production (MR), tobacco (TO) or human rights violations (HR).  This document contains a comprehensive list of corporations or securities affected by those General Assembly policies. View the quick list of affected corporations and securities and download the 2007 GA Divestment List

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