Every company has a mandate to maximize returns and minimize risk. How we define the relevant stakeholders and responsibilities in each category will determine what kind of future we build.
We need governments that recognize return and risk relate to more than short-term profits and matter to more than just shareholders, that businesses can—and do—thrive when they respect the fundamental human rights of all stakeholders.
Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for corporate malfeasance. ICAR stands with the public interest in supporting measures to ensure that externalizing the costs of operations—whether environmental degradation, human rights abuse, or legal bullying–onto vulnerable communities is not a viable business model.
News & Features
- ICAR condemns the Trump Administration’s pause of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement
- Building the U.S. Model for Corporate Accountability: A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for Human Rights
- Stories of Human Rights Abuses in Supply Chains
- ICAR and civil society organizations write letter to Members of COAC Advisory Committee the
- ICAR signs on to NGO letter calling for action on IUU fishing as part of the U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan
- ICAR signs onto letter urging Biden administration to block sugar imports from Dominican Republic, citing forced labor
ICAR condemns the Trump Administration’s pause of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement
On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), citing interests in “American economic competitiveness” and “national security.” The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) strongly condemns this action. Read our statement to learn more.
Building the U.S. Model for Corporate Accountability: A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for Human Rights
As the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) comes into force, it is helping to usher in a new era of accountability for corporate involvement in human rights abuses throughout supply chains. We lay out a more detailed argument for why the United States needs to adopt an FCPA for Human Rights to ensure protections for people and the planet throughout U.S. supply chains. Read our policy brief to learn more.
Stories of Human Rights Abuses in Supply Chains
From garment workers in Southeast Asia to vulnerable Indigenous communities in the Americas, people across the world suffer at the hands of corporations abusing their power. Under ICAR’s mission to create a rights-based society, this storytelling project rises to bring the human rights abuses occurring within the value chains of brands and companies headquartered in the Global North to the forefront of corporate accountability. The stories in this campaign are hand-picked from three countries – Mexico, Uganda, and Bangladesh.
ICAR and civil society organizations write letter to Members of COAC Advisory Committee the
ICAR and civil society organizations write a letter to members of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee regarding recent proposal to keep data collected from import manifest confidential. This proposal counters the human rights commitment to keep goods made from forced labor from entering the country. Read our letter to learn more.
ICAR signs on to NGO letter calling for action on IUU fishing as part of the U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan
ICAR signs onto letter with 11 other environmental, labor, and human rights groups with recommendations on addressing illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and forced labor in seafood supply chains as part of Biden Administration's U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan.
ICAR signs onto letter urging Biden administration to block sugar imports from Dominican Republic, citing forced labor
ICAR signs onto letter with 17 U.S.-based civil society organizations urging the Biden administration to take action on egregious and long-standing forced labor in the sugar fields of the Dominican Republic. Read full letter to learn more.