Leading the Way for Sustainable Investment and Corporate Accountability
Our Vision
The Center for Middle East Investment (CMEI) recognizes that financial systems impacting the lives of millions of people in the Middle East are interconnected with global structures of economic, social, and environmental injustices. CMEI aims to shift capital flows away from funding and profiting from violent oppression and grave human rights violations in the Middle East and toward sustainable, equitable, and socially responsible investments.
Our Mission
Building on existing momentum with hundreds of financial organizations already signed on to related measures for ethical investments and accountability, CMEI mobilizes investors to hold companies accountable for their complicity in egregious human rights violations and to prioritize ethical principles, sustainability and equity in investment, in alignment with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We strive to build a powerful coalition with anti-racism, environmental and global justice movements to foster a world in which capital is a tool for equitable advancement and freedom rather than exploitation and oppression.
Our Work
Advocate for adopting an ethical investment policy that ensures that a corporation’s investments are aligned with its obligations under international law and are managed in a socially, ethically and legally responsible manner.
Submit shareholder resolutions demanding transparency, adherence to international law, divestment from complicit actors, and independent human rights audits. Expand the investor action toolkit.
Threatening and taking legal action against corporations who are complicit in atrocity crimes and grave human rights violations.
Mapping of the entire ecosystem that enables and funds atrocity crimes and grave human rights violations in the Middle East with a focus on investment risks and corporate governance.
Collaborate with racial justice organizations, faith-based coalitions, labor unions, and environmental justice groups whose values align with CMEI’s to amplify collective impact.
Launch campaigns to educate and engage stakeholders, using tools like social media, town halls, and alignment with strategic, impactful grassroots and civil society campaigns that share our objectives.
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