Vote for Genocide-Free Investing
Physicians for Human Rights recently joined a national campaign by Investors Against Genocide (IAG) to ensure that mainstream mutual funds avoid investments that contribute to genocide. IAG has submitted shareholder proposals to more than 50 mutual funds, including Fidelity, Vanguard, Franklin Templeton, and Barclays.This year, as part of an unprecedented campaign, hundreds of thousands of mutual fund shareholders will have the power to vote in favor of IAG’s shareholder proposal, which asks mutual funds to institute oversight procedures to screen out investments in companies that substantially contribute to funding genocide.
PHR is supporting this initiative as part of the advocacy efforts of its Darfur Survival Campaign, which mobilizes support for civilian protection in Darfur (see, for example, the 2006 PHR report, Darfur - Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution).
If you are a mutual fund shareholder, you have a vote in the way your money is managed. On March 19, 2008, Fidelity is holding a shareholder meeting at its corporate headquarters in Boston for the following funds: Blue Chip Growth, Blue Chip Value, Capital & Income, Contrafund, Dividend Growth, Equity Income, Growth & Income, Low Priced Stock, Puritan, Real Estate Investment, Select Health Care Portfolio, and Utilities.
If you invest in these funds, you should have received a proxy ballot from Fidelity. If you have not yet received proxy ballots, have discarded them, or if you have already voted but wish to change your vote, contact Fidelity at (617) 563-7000. You need to vote either before Wednesday or in person at the meeting, 9:30 am at Fidelity headquarters (245 Summer Street, Boston).
Votes with additional Fidelity funds and other major fund companies, including Vanguard, Franklin Templeton and Barclays, will follow. To see the list of mutual funds with pending proposals on genocide-free investing, please visit: www.investorsagainstgenocide.org/shareholderhelp
Whether you own one share or thousands, you can have a voice in genocide-free investing. Please vote your values by returning your proxy ballot, by voting online, or by attending the shareholder meeting.
Sincerely,
Karen Hirschfeld
Campaign Director
Darfur Survival Campaign
This entry was posted by Tremane Barr on March 18, 2008 at 9:58 pm and filed under Human Rights.
Physicians for Human Rights recently joined a national campaign by Investors Against Genocide (IAG) to ensure that mainstream mutual funds avoid investments that contribute to genocide. IAG has submitted shareholder proposals to more than 50 mutual funds, including Fidelity, Vanguard, Franklin Templeton, and Barclays.This year, as part of an unprecedented campaign, hundreds of thousands of mutual fund shareholders will have the power to vote in favor of IAG’s shareholder proposal, which asks mutual funds to institute oversight procedures to screen out investments in companies that substantially contribute to funding genocide.
PHR is supporting this initiative as part of the advocacy efforts of its Darfur Survival Campaign, which mobilizes support for civilian protection in Darfur (see, for example, the 2006 PHR report, Darfur - Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution).
If you are a mutual fund shareholder, you have a vote in the way your money is managed. On March 19, 2008, Fidelity is holding a shareholder meeting at its corporate headquarters in Boston for the following funds: Blue Chip Growth, Blue Chip Value, Capital & Income, Contrafund, Dividend Growth, Equity Income, Growth & Income, Low Priced Stock, Puritan, Real Estate Investment, Select Health Care Portfolio, and Utilities.
If you invest in these funds, you should have received a proxy ballot from Fidelity. If you have not yet received proxy ballots, have discarded them, or if you have already voted but wish to change your vote, contact Fidelity at (617) 563-7000. You need to vote either before Wednesday or in person at the meeting, 9:30 am at Fidelity headquarters (245 Summer Street, Boston).
Votes with additional Fidelity funds and other major fund companies, including Vanguard, Franklin Templeton and Barclays, will follow. To see the list of mutual funds with pending proposals on genocide-free investing, please visit: www.investorsagainstgenocide.org/shareholderhelp
Whether you own one share or thousands, you can have a voice in genocide-free investing. Please vote your values by returning your proxy ballot, by voting online, or by attending the shareholder meeting.
Sincerely,
Karen Hirschfeld
Campaign Director
Darfur Survival Campaign
This entry was posted by Tremane Barr on March 18, 2008 at 9:58 pm and filed under Human Rights.