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.

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 ...