The Global Compact Critics blog is no longer updated. This website will remain available as an archive. SOMO will continue to monitor the (in)effectiveness of voluntary corporate responsibil...
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A comparison tool for the OECD Guidelines, ISO 26000 and the UN Global Compact The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) has launched a new online tool that compares...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/12/new-online-tool-provides-insight-into.html
GUEST BLOG BY DAVID SOGGE Picture retrieved from: http://www.papierentheater.nl/ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) makes no significant societal contribution in Europe. That is the h...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/10/lacking-impact-csr-leaves-business.html
Photo: Desiree Koppes In the wake of the Rana Plaza tragedy Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki-moon challenged the UN Global Compact to do more to ensure safe and sustainable employment...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/06/ban-ki-moon-urges-global-compact.html
Barrick Gold, the Canadian mining giant, has been the centre of controversy over the past few weeks. The company that joined the Global Compact in 2005 has been removed from a New Zealand go...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/06/does-barrick-gold-deserve-to-be-member.html
Photo retrieved from The Independent On April 24, an eight-storey building collapsed in in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, causingthe death of over 200 people, and injuring more than 1200 o...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/04/mango-linked-to-bangladesh-factory.html
RESPONSE TO GUEST BLOG BY PATRICK HAACK, BY MARIËTTE VAN HUIJSTEE, CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY COORDINATOR AND RESEARCHER AT SOMO Photo: Kaptain Kobold In his guest blog , Patrick Haack ra...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/01/discussion-what-to-do-with-bad-apples.html
The United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest voluntary corporate accountability initiative, with the number of corporate members exceeding seven thousand. The Global Compact aims t...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/01/join-discussion-what-to-do-with-bad.html
GUEST BLOG BY PATRICK HAACK, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH In the realm of transnational governance, where public and private actors participate in hybrid policy networks...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2013/01/managing-legitimacy-commons-in.html
Report includes seven case studies of Global Compact participants The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/10/un-special-rapporteur-boycott.html
A coalition of Indian, South Korean, Dutch and Norwegian civil society organisations has filed complaints with the South Korean, Dutch and Norwegian governments concerning POSCO’s behavior...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/10/complaint-filed-against-posco-for.html
THE GLOBAL COMPACT CRITICS BLOG IS A PLATFORM FOR DISCUSSION AND FOR SHARING CRITICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUNCTIONING OF THE UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT. We are inviting everyone to co...
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On Tuesday 5 June Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has launched an e-action that invites people to send a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in order to urge him to end corporat...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/06/reclaim-un-from-corporate-capture.html
The RIO+20 Dialogue is an online platform which gives participants the opportunity to present recommendations for Rio +20 for discussion and voting. The recommendations with the highest support...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/05/support-out-recommendation-at-rio20.html
The executive director of the UN Global Compact, Georg Kell, always seemed to be an exponent of the reactionary forces within the Global Compact. However, currently he is on a mission to clean up...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/04/remarkable-change-of-discourse-in.html
According to Western Sahara Research Watch (WSRW) Siemens’ plans to construct and maintain a wind mill farm in occupied Western Sahara are in violation with the UN Global Compact Principles. W...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/03/siemens-criticized-on-their-commitment.html
ALMOST HALF OF EXCLUDED COMPANIES ARE GLOBAL COMPACT MEMBERS Dutch investment company Delta Lloyd has published a list with companies it has excluded from its investment portfolio. Delta Lloyd ...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/02/delta-lloyd-excludes-38-companies-for.html
The Netherlands’ largest pension fund ABP has divested its interests in PetroChina and blacklisted the company for non-compliance with the United Nations Global Compact Principles. PetroChin...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2012/01/worlds-third-largest-pension-fund_25.html
By Colleen Freeman. Ten months after Roquette Frères’ subsidiary, Roquette America, locked out 240 members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 48G a...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2011/08/roquette-lockout-ends-after-agreement.html
By Colleen Freeman. On June 24, the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and UNI Global Union filed a complaint against communications and logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL for...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2011/07/unions-file-complaint-against-deutsche.html
The UN's flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncont...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2011/07/indians-believe-global-compact-is-used.html
By Colleen Freeman. In a move that has alarmed civil society organizations involved in divestment campaigns, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Sinopec Group's Mr. Fu Chengyu and China E...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2011/06/divestment-proponents-alarmed-by-recent.html
On June 2, the UN Global Compact expelled one of its members for failure to participate in the Compact's dialogue facilitation process. Lifosa , a Lithuanian company that imports phosphate from...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2011/06/great-news-global-compact-expels.html
The UN Global Compact Office publishes a list of academic literature on its website. Most of the articles and reports on this list, however, assess the performance of the Compact from a busines...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-its-website-un-global-compact-office.html
While much of the debate around the Moscow – St. Petersburg motorway project has centered around the behavior of the Russian authorities, the Movement to Defend Khimki Forest is now targeting...
http://globalcompactcritics.blogspot.com/2011/04/activists-lodge-complaint-against.html