Apple Shareholders Can Vote on Human Rights Proposals, SEC Says

Apple Inc. must give its investors the opportunity to vote on shareholder proposals pressing the company on its human rights policies, the SEC said.

In letters posted late Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected Apple’s request to nix the proposals. One of those proposals, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative advocacy group, asks that the company issue a report analyzing how its human rights policy lines up with its actions, “especially in such places as war zones and under oppressive regimes.”

The advocacy group said in its proposal that Apple in 2017 removed the New ...