The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and the President of the International Organization of Employers (IOE) today issued a joint statement urging support for the Global Compact initiative, which aims to involve businesses in upgrading environmental, labour and human rights conditions.
Corporate and labour leaders gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York today to examine the role of business in zones of conflict as part of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's "Global Compact" initiative.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the launch of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a new institution that brings together a wide array of groups dedicated to reporting on the sustainability of economic and social practices by corporations.
In Berlin today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed the response of German companies to his Global Compact initiative, which seeks to promote respect for international principles on the environment, human rights and labour rights.
In a major step towards strengthening Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s expanding “Global Compact” initiative – which promotes action in support of nine internationally accepted principles on human rights, labour rights, and the environment – a group of business executives, international labour leaders, and heads of civil society organizations from across the world met at United Nations Headquarters today for the first session of the Compact’s Advisory Council.
Consolidating his efforts to make globalization work for the world's people, Secretary-General Kofi Annan will convene next Tuesday a meeting of senior business executives, international labour leaders and civil society activists who together will comprise the new Advisory Council for the Global Compact - an initiative which promotes action in support of internationally agreed principles on human rights, labour rights and the environment.
A top United Nations official has encouraged Russian companies to set up their own network to promote the Global Compact, an initiative proposed three years ago by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to involve businesses in upgrading environmental, labour and human rights conditions.
The first-ever meeting of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Global Compact initiative in the Russian Federation will open in Moscow on Monday, a United Nations spokesman announced today.
Officials from various business and labour interests are among the scores of participants gathered at a conference which opened today in London on Secretary-General's Global Compact initiative.
Some 500 participants gathered in Brazil today to discuss Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Global Compact initiative - an effort to involve business in upgrading environmental, labour and human rights conditions, and to bring the benefits of globalization to more people worldwide.
