The Pension Boards, together with nearly 200 institutional investors with combined assets of over $1.5 trillion, has signed on to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility's statement calling for systemic reforms to ensure worker safety:

• ICCR Investor Statement on Bangladesh (ICCR News Release, 05/16/2013)
• "U.S. Retailers Are Pressed to Join Safety Effort in Bangladesh," by Stephen Greenhouse (The New York Times, 05/16/2013)
• Diverse Coalition of Global Investors Managing More than $3.1 Trillion Calls for Systemic Reforms to End Human Rights Abuses in Apparel Supply Chains (ICCR News Release, 05/22/2013)
• "In Dhaka, a Struggle to Heal," by Syed Zain Al-Mahmood (The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2014)
• Investors Call for Stronger Financial Commitments from Brands and Retailers to Aid Victims of Rana Plaza (ICCR News Release, April 24th, 2014)