The Fair Finance Guide is a collaboration of NGOs assessing financial institutions on sustainability and human rights. It pushes banks, insurers, and pension funds to adopt better policies and practices, empowering consumers to choose fairer financial products. We are one of the driving partners in the Netherlands.
Financial institutions manage enormous amounts of money in companies. It is therefore crucial that they do not invest in industries linked to human rights violations or environmental destruction. The Fair Finance Guide believes that banks, insurers, and pension funds must take responsibility by investing sustainably to avoid damage or suffering. In other words: their investments should be fair. We research and publish detailed assessments of their policies and practices, giving consumers the tools to demand better and helping to push institutions toward real change. Our goal is a financial sector that actively contributes to a just, peaceful, and sustainable world. The Fair Finance Guide is for everyone who wants their money to support, not harm, people and the planet. Within the Fair Finance Guide, PAX is mostly involved in the themes ‘human rights’ and ‘arms’.
FAQ
We assess the policies and practices of financial institutions and advocate improvements.
A coalition including PAX, Amnesty International, Oxfam Novib, Friends of the Earth NL, and World Animal Protection.
Through detailed research against international standards on 15 sustainability themes.
Yes! Our results empower consumers to demand better from their financial service providers. The project’s website gives you the opportunity to send letters to your bank, pension fund & insurer.
Yes, the Fair Finance Guide is part of a global network active in many countries.
Timeline
Review the history of the Fair Finance Guide
Further reading
Partners
Contact
Cor Oudes, oudes@paxforpeace.nl