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Article

10 Aug 2010

Author:
Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today [USA]

Investors urge unqualified Declaration endorsement [USA]

The movement to persuade the federal government to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…has grown beyond American Indian and religious communities to the financial world. Calvert Investments…and a coalition of investors have submitted comments to the State Department and White House urging the unconditional endorsement of the Declaration... The U.N. General Assembly voted to adopt UNDRIP in September 2007…[T]he U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand – voted against the Declaration…The investors’ coalition said U.S. endorsement of the Declaration is important to provide “federal policy certainty” for corporations operating on indigenous lands globally…[Also refers to Boston Common Assets Management, Mercy Investment Services, First Affirmative Financial Network, Walden Asset Management]