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Enhancing Corporate Sustainability through the UN Global Compact


The Ten Principles

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 following four core issues.

  HUMAN RIGHTS

Principle 1:

Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and

Principle 2:

Business should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
  LABOUR STANDARD

Principle 3:

Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;

Principle 4:

The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;

Principle 5:

The effective abolition of child labour; and

Principle 6:

The elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
  ENVIRONMENT

Principle 7:

Business should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;

Principle 8:

Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility, and;

Principle 9:

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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