... [T]he report names four public funds as significant investors in NSO, with two based in the UK: South Yorkshire Pensions Authority and East Riding Pension Fund; and two based in the US: Oregon Public Employees Retirement System and Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.

... The report’s recommendations include that nation-states, “(a) Implement the UN Special Rapporteur’s call for an immediate moratorium on the global sale and transfer of the products of the private surveillance industry until rigorous human rights safeguards are put in place…

Next, the report suggests to surveillance companies to “implement a broad range of human rights due diligence, transparency, and accountability measures, in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.”

But probably the newest and most important conclusion from the report is the push to investors themselves to “assess whether their investment portfolios include or may in the future include surveillance companies, and demand that any such portfolio companies fulfill their responsibilities to respect human rights in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidelines.”

Amnesty said it hoped that greater attention to the issue could help investors “make more informed choices if they had access to information that ensured their investments were not violating human rights.”

The report includes a response from NSO regarding board membership which stated: “As a shareholder, Novalpina appoints members to the Group Boards of Directors for Triangle Holdings SA and OSY Technologies SARL and various committees of those boards, each of which provides strategic direction regarding the activities of the Group.” However, “Novalpina is not involved in the day-to-day, operational activities of the Group, which is the responsibility of Group management. As with any corporation, senior management may consult from time to time with members of the Board on various matters.”

... NSO Group had submitted a full and detailed response to the Amnesty report that was published on May 31, as can be found on Annexes 2 and 4 of the report... "In the past few years, we have been very open to criticism, including by human rights groups such as Amnesty, choosing to be very proactive in our compliance process, and even about to finalize our first transparency report. We continue to welcome an open and honest discussions with any person or organization that wishes to raise their concerns and learn more about our life-saving technologies."