Corporate Social Responsibility
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- Date
- 1973 February 6-8
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Scovil
- Seconder
- Goodings
- Prologue
- During the concluding session of the meeting, the Primate suggested that possibly the NEC might wish to associate itself with actions taken by PECUSA in regard to Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Text of motion
- That this NEC hear, for information, the action of the Episcopal Church. CARRIED
- Notes
- Mr. Anthony spoke of the resolutions on Southern Africa filed with twelve U.S. based corporations by a coalition of six denominations in the U.S.A. These proxy resolutions are information (disclosure) requests from the corporations about the nature of their activities in South Africa and Angola where racist, colonial, white regimes rely on police and military powers to maintain themselves. The intention is to raise public awareness of such corporations' involvement in racially troubled areas. The NWP [National World Program] Division feels that it is extremely important and a significant function on the part of Church agencies to exercise their proxy votes in support of these resolutions. It was noted that the Anglican Church of Canada has holdings in four of these U.S. based corporations: IBM, Xerox, Kodak and Exxon.
- Reference was made also to the motion approved by the Central Committee of the WCC, supporting this kind of activity and requesting its member Churches, Christian agencies and individual Christians outside Southern Africa to use all their influence, including stockholder action and disinvestment, to press corporations to withdraw investments from and cease trading with South Africa, the Portuguese territories and Rhodesia.
- Subjects
- Corporate divestiture - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Corporate divestiture - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Corporate social responsibility - Anglican Church of Canada
- South Africa - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- South Africa - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Economic sanctions - South Africa
- Angola - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Angola - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Anthony, Tom (Thomas Murray), 1935-2023