H&M Sustainability Report 2008

Participant
Published
  • 30-Apr-2009
Time period
  • January 2008  –  December 2008
Links
Description
  • - Report launch breakfast seminar: we invited around 80 stakeholders (NGOs, analysts, investors, academia, media), and around 35 chose to participate.

    - Report altert (Ethical Performance) to 10-15,000 receivers

    - Post on Facebook: more than one million fans

    - H&M's intranet

    - H&M's CSR manager's blog

    - hm.com: teaser on the first page

    - GRI's website

    Next year, we will make sure to include a statement of continued support for the UNCG by our CEO.

Principles covered
  • Principle 1 - Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights
  • Principle 2 - Make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses
  • Principle 3 - Businesses should uphold freedom of association & 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
  • Principle 6 - Eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
  • Principle 7 - Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges
  • Principle 8 - Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility
  • Principle 9 - Encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies
  • Principle 10 - Businesses should work against all forms of corruption, including extortion and bribery
Languages
  • English