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Arguments against CSR and some answers
Definitions of Corporate Social Responsibility
Discussion
The Global Reporting Initiative - is it fit for purpose?
Translations
Companies in the News
Case studies of managing a crisis
Odwalla
Johnson & Johnson
and Tylenol
Exxon Valdez
Snow Brand Milk
Products
Emerging Issues
Drugs companies and AIDS
When to quit a bad country
The United Nations Global Compact
In January 1999 the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged world business leaders to embrace and enact the United Nations Global Compact. The Compact seeks support for nine principles of human rights, labour and environmental sustainability as they apply to business practices and public policy.
Business is encouraged to foster human rights by supporting and respecting the protection of international human rights within their sphere of influence and by making sure that their own corporations are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Business should also, according to the Compact, support labour standards by ensuring freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. There should be the abolition of any form of forced or compulsory labour, and child labour.
In terms of the environment, business is urged to take a precautionary approach to environmental management by undertaking initiatives to reduce environmental impact, and through promoting innovation in the use of new, greener technologies.
For further information, see the website at http://www.unglobalcompact.org
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This page is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility site of Mallen Baker. It is constantly updated with analysis and opinion pieces on different aspects of CSR - with a mostly international focus, with some particular interests on the UK.
Initiatives such as the Global Compact will be covered, and updated, periodically on the site, and in the free CSR fortnightly email newsletter associated with the site, Business Respect. The easiest way to keep in touch is to subscribe.
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