United Nations Global Compact

Yet while preventing environmental damage may demand additional implementation costs, environmental remediation often costs significantly more, both monetarily and in terms of reputation. The goal of trying to prevent and reduce pollution is widely accepted, but in order to fulfill it major changes will have to be made throughout the supply chain. This could lead to challenges from suppliers who use less ecologically friendly practices. Transnationally, there are conflicting environmental recommendations and laws that can make it easy to do the least possible when it comes to being eco-friendly. Companies should make every attempt to follow the guidance of the Global Compact and use innovative technologies to prevent environmental damages. For example, many involved in the diamond industry are pursuing the expansion of synthetic or lab grown diamonds, which would eradicate the need for mining…

and Evaluation (M&E), international standards etc. It needs much of the organizational efforts to qualify the CSR results in human rights, protection of environment, relations with their co-workers and the society. At international level, GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) and UNGC (UN Global Compact) are taking initiatives for the CSR reporting and to create more transparency (GRI,…

health of its employees, 2. Protect the environment, 3. Respect the human rights of its employees and residents of the communities in which it operations, and 4. To continuously develop these communities. The company’s CSR policy is “guided by international standards and best practices and is supported by strategic relationships and other policies.” Adopting international standards imply adopting highest level of standards at the global stage. The company is member of, and adheres to,…

The United Nation Global Compact’s Ten Principles explicitly targets the behavior of companies on the global stage. Derived from: “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption” (UN cite), the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles is aimed at providing a platform for sustainable practices in…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and effective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing measurable and time bound objectives, the MDGs help to promote global awareness, political…

the rights they deserve while not full heartedly ensuring it is carried out (par. 4-7). The “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” was written and developed by the United Nations. Within this document there are 46 article points, the first 10 being the most important. Article 1 guarantees the right of indigenous peoples to have full enjoyment of all the human rights and fundamental freedoms. Article 2 states that indigenous peoples are free and equal to all other peoples and have…

Every year, between 600,000 and 800,000 people, eighty percent being women and children, are victims of human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as ”the recruitment, transport and receipt of people across borders by improper means for an improper purpose, such as forced labor or sexual exploitation." Human trafficking generates about 32 billion dollars each year and is the third largest source of illegal trade, behind guns and narcotics. Human trafficking has a traumatic…

extension, a state made up largely of cognitively impaired persons is at risk to be left behind. The majority of the world’s populations living in conditions that may impair cognitive development also happen to be those who live in developing or impoverished nations. This is a link that cannot be ignored, as we continue to see a growing disparity between both the wealth and the brainpower of what dependency theorists call “core” nations and the many states still stuck in the periphery of our…

Achieving universal primary education is the most important millennium development goal. In 2001 when the world powers created the millennium development goals there was an estimated 115 million children who were deprived of the right to education with the majority of them being women. This is a catastrophe, a lack of universal primary education contributes to a lot of the world problems. There are many nations that have worked toward the millennium development goal of achieving universal…

economics, communications, culture, and many other aspects of global life across national boundaries (Boyer, 11). Mahbubani’s main argument is for greater globalization towards the end goal of one world. His argument is encompassed and generalized in his sub-title, Asia, The West, and The Logic of One World. Asia of the sub-title describes the Asian region of the world and the Asian population, detailing the explosive growth of the countries and the individual. The West of the sub-title…