CEOs, Boards Are Urged to Embrace Civil Rights Audits (Correct)

Civil rights audits of major corporations should include the engagement of the chief executive officer and board of directors, a new report argues.

The 45-page paper, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and supported by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, sketches out a set of principles for companies that agree to undergo corporate civil rights audits, in which third-party groups analyze the businesses to determine whether they perpetuate discrimination.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000017c-a3b5-d447-a5fc-f3f7b3f40000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Laura Murphy, the author of the report scheduled to be released Oct. 27, argued that audits should go beyond an evaluation of a company’s diversity and inclusion ...