Navigating Rollbacks in Reproductive and LGBTQI+ Rights in the US: Guidance for Financial Institutions

Date and Time

June 20, 2024
9:00 am-10:00 am PDT

Location

Webinar

Topic

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Event Resources

Recording Presentation

Recent rollbacks of rights across the US have created a fragmented legal landscape on abortion and LGBTQI+ rights that is destabilizing for business. These developments have had a chilling effect on companies concerned with operating responsibly and expose financial institutions (FIs) to complex ethical dilemmas, such as how to comply with the law while upholding the reproductive and LGBTQI+ rights of their customers, users, and workforce.

On June 20, BSR is hosting a webinar with guest speakers to launch its report titled ‘Navigating the Rollbacks in Protection of Reproductive and LGBTQI+ Rights in the United States: Guidance for Financial Institutions’. The Guidance helps FIs responsibly navigate instances in which US state laws are at odds with universally recognized human rights. It provides an overview of the material risks that may result from failing to respect reproductive and LGBTQI+ rights and a summary of how FIs may be involved with impacts on retail and institutional customers, users, workers, and society at large. It offers practical guidance and case studies that build on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and multi-stakeholder insights.

Scheduled Speakers

• Shelley Alpern, Associate Vice President of Corporate Engagement, Rhia Ventures
• Alejandra Caraballo, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School
• Colleen Foster, General Partner, Amboy Street Ventures and Board Chair, Planned Parenthood Action Fund
• Paloma Muñoz Quick, Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR
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Paloma Muñoz Quick
Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR
New York
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Paloma leads BSR’s work on Human Rights Standards, including standard-setting, knowledge management, and helping companies respond to emerging standards and regulation. She is also Senior Advisor to BSR’s Finance & Human Rights Practice.
Prior to joining BSR, Paloma was Advisor to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Senior Consultant of the UN B-Tech Project, where she developed a vision for promoting the uptake of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights among investors and guidance on responsible investment in digital technologies. Prior to the UN, Paloma launched and led the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, where she developed thought leadership on the investor responsibility to respect human rights and supported stewardship engagements across industries. She also worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights advising companies, governments, and civil society on business and human rights.
Paloma is a member of the US government’s Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. She sits on the Editorial Board of Developments in the Field of the Business and Human Rights Journal of Cambridge University.
She holds a Master of International Affairs (M.I.A.) in Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science, also from Columbia University. 
Paloma is Chilean-American and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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