1. Access to Health Care
2. Contract Supplier System
3. Corporate Governance
4. Enabling Access to Capital
5. Environmental Justice
6. Global Warming
7. Promoting Human Rights
8. Violence and Militarization of Society
9. Water and Food

Access to Health Care
As part of the effort to ensure health care for all, the Access to Health Care Working Group works for equitable pharmaceutical pricing which benefits both consumers and shareholders. Within the group, an HIV/AIDS Caucus draws particular attention to the unique challenges the HIV/AIDS-TB-Malaria pandemics present to corporations and shareholders.

Mission Statement
We believe that every person has the right of access to health care and to an environment that supports health and wellness. To that end we commit ourselves to advocate for safe, therapeutically effective health products and services, available to everyone at reasonable cost.

Contract Supplier System
The Contract Supplier Working Group is committed to holding companies accountable for the labor, social and environmental conditions under which their products and services are produced or provided. This means that a company takes responsibility for all those whom it employs, directly or indirectly, through contract suppliers, vendors, licensees and sub-contractors. Companies need to take concrete actions to influence their vendors, suppliers and factory management to respect the dignity of the workers, pay a sustainable living wage and create a safe and healthy workplace where labor rights are respected.

Mission Statement
We believe justice requires that companies respect the rights of workers and the dignity of each person. We commit to pressing corporations to use their economic power to enforce their codes of conduct to ensure that their suppliers meet basic human and labor rights standards and that the lives of workers continuously improve. We believe workers and communities must be included in the benefits of the global economy.

Corporate Governance
The Corporate Governance Working Group challenges corporations to uphold financial, social and ethical standards through their governance structures. Our work covers the areas of executive and CEO compensation; independence and inclusivity of boards of directors, and board committees; and transparency and accountability to shareholders and community stakeholders.

Mission Statement
We believe that a company's governance structure should be based on ethical values, including inclusivity, integrity, honesty, justice, transparency and responsiveness to shareholders and stakeholders. We believe that a company's obligations to its stakeholders extend far beyond financial performance, and into the social and environmental arenas.

Enabling Access to Capital
The Access to Capital Working Group engages the financial sector to make lending and banking policies more transparent, equitable, and environmentally and socially responsible. Recent scandals on Wall Street have demonstrated that, now more than ever, shareholders must hold corporations accountable for past misdeeds and advocate for systems which prevent them in the future.
Research, investment advice, risk analysis, underwriting, project finance and debt servicing continue to be important services upon which the global financial system and the investing community rely. These activities also have serious consequences for underserved populations who have been left behind by past economic prosperity and the fragile ecological balance upon which all of humanity relies.

Mission Statement
Limited access to, and unequal distribution of capital for poor and marginal communities, domestically and internationally, accounts for much of the poverty in the world. The globalization of the world's economy has accelerated due to financial flows of capital both private and public. Our members use various strategies to address the impact financial institutions have on society, human rights, fair lending practices, and access to capital for the underserved. Furthermore, we commit ourselves to making investments in community economic development.

Environmental Justice
The environmental justice (EJ) movement is a response to the disproportionate concentration of pollution from both the public and private sectors in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. Such pollution can take the form of landfills, incinerators, and chemical plants. The Environmental Justice Working Group was formed to help empower these neighborhoods to exercise control over harmful corporate actions.

Mission Statement
ICCR's mission is to empower communities affected by environmental racism by educating them about shareholder democracy, and supporting corporate dialogues and shareholder campaigns led by community-based organizations.

Global Warming
The Global Warming Working Group works with corporations in those sectors most directly responsible for greenhouse gas emissions: oil and gas; electric power; automotive; and appliance manufacturing. We are also directing shareholder efforts at the financial sector. Through dialogue and shareholder resolutions, our members press companies to measure, monitor and reduce their total greenhouse gas emissions, and to position themselves strategically to profit from opportunities under new regulatory programs.

Mission Statement
The Global Warming Working Group's mission is to educate companies about the environmental and economic threats posed by the emissions of greenhouse gases from their products and operations, and to increase shareholder value by urging companies to proactively address the global warming challenge.

Promoting Human Rights
The Human Rights Working Group is committed to promoting internationally recognized human rights standards in corporations' operations, their suppliers and in the societies where they do business. The Working Group challenges corporations to adopt, implement, monitor and report on comprehensive human rights policies that respect the rights of employees and the rights of individuals and groups in the societies where they operate.

Mission Statement
We believe that every human being is created in the image of God. The dignity of the human person must be respected and protected. We believe the promotion and protection of human rights -civil, political, social, religious, cultural and economic-are minimum standards for all social institutions, including companies. We commit to work to change corporate policies and practices to ensure respect for the basic human rights of all stakeholders.

Violence and Militarization of Society
The vision of the Militarism and Violence in Society Working Group is a world where citizens live and work together in trust and cooperation to bring about an environment of peace and sustainability where all of creation can grow to their full potential.

Mission Statement
To accomplish its vision the Militarism and Violence in Society Working Group addresses the culture of violence in our society in a holistic manner recognizing that right relationships are based on the sustainability of communities, economies and the environment. The faith communities of ICCR are called to promote harmony among the human family and between the human family and all of creation. The ICCR working group assists ICCR members in using their institutional resources to that end by working with corporations to address issues of militarism and violence in our society.

Water and Food
The Water and Food Working Group works in the areas of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Water Resources. It seeks to protect the rights and safety of consumers by pushing for the labeling of GMO foods and ingredients, while promoting independent, scientific analysis of GMO technology and crops. Concerned for the more than 1 billion people around the world who currently do not have access to a safe water supply, the Working Group also seeks to hold America's corporations accountable for water misuse and pollution.

Mission Statement
The Water and Food Working Group pursues corporate action to address concerns about the environmental and health risks related to GMOs and the use of patent claims by the industry to restrict the freedom and self-reliance of farmers. It also strives to raise awareness among corporations and shareholders about the increasing scarcity of water resources, to ensure that corporations take responsible actions to limit and restrict the pollution and overuse of water, and to address issues of control and privatization.

Source: www.iccr.org/about/issues.php