Corporate responsibility

The United Nations has an overall responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security and for the promotion of development.

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

We believe that the United Nations has a special responsibility to promote and develop a comprehensive strategy for combating terrorism.

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

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.

The draft Norms, on the other hand, did provide a comprehensive list of business responsibilities with regard to human rights that were particularly relevant to companies operating in countries that were unwilling or unable to protect human rights.

The study we published last year, called The Network of Global Corporate Control, was the first extensive analysis of economic networks.

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.

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.

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

85. The Committee reaffirms that the United Nations has a permanent responsibility with respect to the question of Palestine until a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement is reached.

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 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.

The Election Act imposes criminal liability for the disclosure of political opinion polls for the 23 day period running up to and including election day.

At the same time, all vehicles are also enrolled in a world wide umbrella policy so as to cover any liability beyond the local limits up to a maximum of 1 million per incident.

Let us not forget that the Organization and its organs have a permanent responsibility concerning the central issue of the conflict, the question of Palestine, until a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement is reached.

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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.

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

That is a thin legal basis for establishing a pan European supervisor with direct responsibility for individual institutions, and it was clearly not intended for that purpose.

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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