Corporate responsibility

Firms exit from a market due to business strategy adjustments.

The core level included clear and prime accountability on the part of companies for the human rights of their employees.

It was also important to place corporate responsibility in its proper context.

1.189 A corporate relations strategy will have been established to maximize benefits to the Agency.

In their view, companies have a responsibility to ensure that the benefits of globalization are shared equally.

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised regarding the precise definitions of general terms such as corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and positive corporate contribution , and regarding the notion of a corporate responsibility for development, as well as UNCTAD's mandate in this regard.

12. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

11. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Corporate responsibility was reflected under subprogramme 2, in response to paragraph 58 of the São Paulo Consensus.

Nevertheless, many corporate responsibility initiatives currently came directly from industry.

Further reaffirms to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Further reaffirms to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Some leading TNCs from different sectors have therefore made a commitment to make CR a strategic concern in their worldwide operations.

Eliminating terrorism requires determination and a global, comprehensive and coordinated strategy, integrating responsibility for and participation by all States, large and small.

The report does not provide any proposals for addressing the problems arising from the export of polluting technologies from developed to developing countries, the conduct of transnational companies and the issue of corporate responsibility and accountability.

The new ministry is responsible for preparing a strategy for public sector development as well as a macroeconomic framework for private sector development.

As the Global Programme of Action makes clear, responsibility for developing an effective national narcotics control strategy lies with Member States.

Indicator of achievement (e) (i) should read (i) Increased number of companies adhering to the relevant provisions of the World Summit on Sustainable Development with regard to corporate responsibility and the Global Compact .

(a) To identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

The Expert Meeting will commence this process by identifying the areas that are in the common interest of countries and firms, and determining what companies think the economic dimension of the CR concept could involve.

It tried to redefine itself as a more normal financial institution, less committed to holding long term strategic stakes in companies.

The next level included corporate accountability for surrounding communities and customers to avoid acts that negatively affected their rights.

The country also had strategic linkages with TNCs and played an important role as a footprint in the region.

Host countries have a responsibility to ensure that TNCs operate in manner consistent with their domestic and international human rights obligations.

(c) Business Leaders' Initiative on Human Rights an initiative that brings together 10 companies for a three year period to explore the ways that human rights standards and principles can inform issues of corporate responsibility and corporate governance

The head of the mission (the Special Representative of the Secretary General) is responsible for formulating the exit strategy, which is derived from the mandated tasks promulgated in the Security Council resolution.

The panellist from the UN Research Institute for Social Development reflected on the institutional and policy dimensions of corporate responsibility.

Monitoring of progress at all levels of action will be needed on the basis of criteria of corporate responsibility and accountability developed from a human rights perspective.

Big companies. Big companies.

The concept of corporate responsibility (CR) involves a broad range of fundamental social and economic development issues, including human rights, labour rights, environmental protection and good governance.

Porter and Rivkin are not calling on businesses simply to pay their workers more. Instead, they are urging businesses to engage in a strategic, collaborative push to improve education and training to raise the skill levels of their workers.

The maintenance of international peace and security is a collective responsibility.

All companies die, all companies.

The programme of work focused in particular on paragraph (a) of the Special Representative's mandate, which requests him to identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights .

Such a list would be a new contribution to the analysis of the globalization of R D in the context of assessing what could now be called the corporate developmental responsibility of firms.

It will also be responsible for drawing up the lists of chemical substances whose production, use, transport, import and export by the companies and industries requiring them is subject to control.

Promoting corporate responsibility and accountability and the exchange of best practices, as well as the active involvement of civil society, are also important aspects of building stable policy and institutional frameworks.

The two São Paulo documents reaffirm the mandate of the Bangkok Plan of Action in the area of investment, technology and enterprise development and add to it, in particular, a mandate in the area of corporate responsibility.

Participants reviewed a range of existing initiatives and standards that States, business and civil society had developed to strengthen corporate and State responsibility in the sector.

The Special Representative recalled that his mandate called for him to identify and clarify standards of responsibility and accountability of business with regard to human rights, and that he was beginning to grapple with how to do so.

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