The UN Global Compact and Human Rights - Developing a Vision for 2020
18 October 2010
The 10th Anniversary of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) was commemorated at its Leaders Summit in New York City on 24-25 June 2010. The Summit reaffirmed the importance of the UNGC’s central mission – to embed human rights, labour, environmental and anticorruption principles into corporate practices. Participants highlighted the urgent need to bring mass scale to the discipline of corporate responsibility and recommitted to the UNGC as a key initiative in this effort.
IHRB has been and remains a strong supporter of the Global Compact and wishes to see it grow in effectiveness and integrity as it begins the second decade of its existence.
This review seeks to offer an independent assessment of the Global Compact within the broader corporate responsibility movement, focusing in particular on its role in advancing corporate understanding of and respect for human rights. It aims to make practical recommendations on how the strategic approach of the UNGC could be developed over the coming years to build on successes and address concerns raised.
