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Article: Silent reform through the Global Compact.(ESSAY)(United Nations Global Compact and corporate social responsibility)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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For the first time in its history, the United Nations is embracing business and civil society as vital partners in advancing its goals of international peace and development. In today's interdependent and globalizing world, business and the United Nations share common objectives. Despite different purposes--the United Nations works for peace, poverty reduction and human rights protection, while business has traditionally focused on profit and growth--the overlapping objectives of the United Nations and business are clear: building markets, good governance, combating corruption, safeguarding the environment, achieving global health and ensuring social inclusion.
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