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UN Global Compact Initiative

The UN Global Compact presents a unique strategic platform for participants to advance their commitments to sustainability and corporate citizenship. Structured as a public-private initiative, the Global Compact project offers a policy framework for the development, implementation, and disclosure of sustainability principles and practices related to its four core areas: Human Rights, Labour, the Environment, and Anti-Corruption.

"We need business to give practical meaning and reach to the values and principles that connect cultures and people everywhere."
“The privilege, particularly in this project, is working with UNDP. It is a model for partnership between government organizations and the private sector. The principal is we want governments to join hands—in real partnership—with the business community and not just look at it as an observer.”

The Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values within the following areas:

HUMAN RIGHTS

Principle 1 Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and
Principle 2 make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

LABOUR

Principle 3 Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right of collective bargaining;
Principle 4 the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
Principle 5 the effective abolition of child labour; and
Principle 6 the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

ENVIRONMENT

Principle 7 Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
Principle 8 undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle 9 encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

ANTI-CORRUPTION

Principle 10 Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.