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Business
action meets UN challenge
Paris, 17
November 1999 - ICC
today launched on its website a special section that will demonstrate week by
week how companies are fulfilling the Global Compact agreed between business
and the United Nations to cooperate in promoting a set of shared values. The
areas covered are human rights, labour standards and the environment.
Business took up UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan challenge to join the compact when a delegation of business
leaders conferred with Mr Annan and the heads of UN agencies in Geneva last
July.
Introducing the new section
of the website, ICC Secretary General Maria Livanos Cattaui said: "It's time
to show just how muc
h business is doing to make the world a better place in
all these areas."
Mrs Cattaui added: "The
nature of business - the competition on which it thrives - makes it hard to
give a complete picture of the contribution business enterprise is making. We
are talking about an intricate mosaic made up of countless pieces.
"The new Global Compact
section of our website will make a start in assembling those pieces. The task
is enormous and will never be complete - but at least it is a beginning."
The new section will carry
individual cases studies and accounts of specific initiatives. Sometimes these
will take the form of reports carried on the ICC site and sometimes links will
be made to relevant pages on corporate site. Always there will be a brief summary
of what participating companies are doing.
The first batch of items
gives a good picture of the diversity of the business contribution to the Global
Compact.
You can learn:
- how Fiat is reducing
pollution on Italy's roads
- how Unilever planted
one million trees in Thailand to revitalise the land
- how Glaxo Wellcome is fighting tuberculosis through community projects in
South Africa
- how chemicals companies throughout the world are raising standards in safety,
health and environmental protection through the Responsible Care programme
Global
Compact pages
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