United Nations Global Compact

Daimler Should Speak Up So Alabama Will Stand Down

Fred Redmond | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Alabama, Human Rights, Anti-Immigration Law, Racial Segregation, Workers? Rights, Mercedes-Benz, Discrimination, Daimler, HB 56. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Home News
Fred Redmond

Daimler can say loudly to the lawmakers of Alabama that it will not stand for a repetition of history and it will not tolerate discrimination in the workplace. In doing so, the company will show that when it says it supports global, human and workers' rights, it means it.

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Women's Empowerment Principles Make It Clear: Equality Means Business

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, United Nations Global Compact, Women, Fortune 500, UN Global Compact, United Nations, Glass Ceiling, Discrimination, Women in Business, Un Women, International Women's Day, Video, World News
Kiyotaka Akasaka

Let's face it, while the glass ceiling may have hundreds of thousands or even millions of cracks, it is made of sturdy silica and has yet to crumble at our feet.

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The Real Significance of the UN Global Compact

Gregory Unruh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, United Nations Global Compact, Corporate Social Responsibility, Green News
Gregory Unruh

The UN Global Compact is revolutionary because it recognizes that there is a new player on the global scene that rivals the nation state in economic terms, and it is the modern corporation.

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New Dr. Strangeloves and the Prospect of Geo-Engineered Climate "Adaptation"

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Global Energy Assessment Council, Copenhagen 2009, Africa, President Emanuel Mori, 350.Org, Bill Mckibben, Grace Akumu, Royal Dutch Shell, Tallberg Forum, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Ged Davis, Dr. Strangelove, Scenario Planning, Our Common Future, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Mario Tokoro, Tallberg Foundation, Kenya, Chief Oren Lyons, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

This year's Tallberg Forum asked: "How on earth can we live together, within the planetary boundaries?" Some scientists and energy policymakers posed a different question that made my hairs stand on end.

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Corruption and Money Vs. The Environment

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Peru, United Nations-Global Compact, Land Rights, Garcia, Rainforest, Environment, Ghana, Oil, Reporters Uncensored, Indigenous, Foreign-Mining, President, Rutv, World News
Reporters Uncensored

Our main topic this week will be corruption, within governments and multinational corporations. 

Corrupt practices are impacting the environment and devastating indigenous communities.

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