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On human rights day, investors affirm responsibility of business to safeguard human rights in global supply chains
In commemoration of Human Rights Day 2013, today members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of faith-based and socially responsible investors, announced that they would begin a month-long campaign in January to urge fifteen companies in the food-agricultural and hospitality sectors to implement policies that will prevent human rights abuses in their global supply chains. The food-ag companies identified in the initiative are ADM, ConAgra, Costco, Darden Restaurants, Kroger, Mondelez Int’l, Target, Walmart and the hospitality companies are Choice, Delta, Hyatt, Starwood, US Airways, Wyndham, and Southwest.