Major insurers do little against serious human rights violations: New case study from Fair Finance Netherlands
29 June 2021
The nine largest insurers in the Netherlands together invest more than 4 billion euros in eleven multinationals directly involved in serious and long-term human rights violations.
Even when they have been aware of pollution, land grabbing, violence and murder for years, a new report from the Fair Insurance Guide Netherlands indicates that most insurers take no or insufficient action against the companies involved. In doing so, they fail to comply with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles), which were established ten years ago this month.
