Designed to help you find the resources you need to take the next step on your sustainability journey.
This guidance helps companies to introduce or strengthen existing grievance mechanisms. A rights-compatible mechanism integrates human rights norms and standards into its processes and is based on principles of non-discrimination, equity, accountability, empowerment and participation.
This short document helps explain human trafficking in further detail, outlines the scale of the problem, and describes how businesses may encounter the problem or be implicated.
Offers a short summary of arguments and information to help companies make the business case against corruption, including key facts and figures
This brochure gives a brief introduction to the UN Global Compact, outlining the main objectives of the initiative, the business case for participation as well as some of the ways in which companies can engage.
The purpose of this guide is to increase the understanding of the four labour principles of principles 3, 4, 5, and 6 as well as to provide an inventory of key resources to help integrate these principles into business operations.
Brazilian TV news report on the Global Compact (in Portuguese), featuring comment by Jose Sergio de Azevedo, President of Petrobras.
A framework outlining different ways in which the private sector can collaborate with UN agencies, funds and programmes to address global challenges.
A set of three guides to help companies and employer organizations understand and take action against child labour. Guide 1 explains what child labour is, Guide 2 explains from a business perspective what can be done to abolish child labour, and Guide 3 is for employer organizations.
The report summarizes the discussions and outcomes of the Global Compact Leaders Summit 2007.
Speeches by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and UN Global Compact Executive Director Georg Kell at the 2007 Leaders Summit (4 videos).
Economist Jeffrey Sachs describes how public-private partnerships saved over 1 million lives by increasing access to HIV/AIDS medications. Speech was delivered at the 2007 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit.
Illustrates how different types of UN-Business partnerships can contribute to development objectives, and show the win-win potential of collaboration.