"I call on you - individually through your firms, and collectively through your business associations - to embrace, support and enact a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, and environmental practices."


(Kofi Annan - UN Secretary General,
World Economic Forum, 31 January 1999, Davos)

  
The UN Global Compact's Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption enjoy universal consensus and are derived from:

The UN Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption:


Human Rights
Principle 1
Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights
Principle 2
Businesses should 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 to collective bargaining
Principle 4
Businesses should uphold the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour
Principle 5
Businesses should uphold the effective abolition of child labour
Principle 6
Businesses should uphold the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
 

Environment
Principle 7
Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges
Principle 8
Businesses should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility
Principle 9
Businesses should 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



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