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Critics of the United Nations Global Compact have started their own website where they can raise concerns.
The Global Compact Critics site is to be a conduit for complaints about how the Compact works, and for allegations about signatory companies that are flouting its ten principles.
Amnesty International UK, Centrum CSR (Poland), Corpwatch, EarthRights International, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and Swiss-based Tiers Monde are among pressure groups behind the website, which will be administered by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, a non-profit research bureau based in Amsterdam.
Chief among the long-standing criticisms of the Compact are that companies can sign up and pay only lip-service to its principles. However, the Compact Office has responded to these concerns during the past two years by setting up a complaints mechanism and by throwing out more than 700 signatories that had not met certain reporting requirements. (EP9, issue 2, p1).
The Compact Office said that it ‘appreciates the interest’ of the creators of the website and suggested they might make its job easier by prompting companies to observe their Compact commitments.
But it said it thought critics may do better to take their complaints to the Compact’s civil society co-ordinator, Olajobi Makinwa, who would be ‘a more direct channel for expressing views and engaging in dialogue’.
The Global Compact Critics site is to be a conduit for complaints about how the Compact works, and for allegations about signatory companies that are flouting its ten principles.
Amnesty International UK, Centrum CSR (Poland), Corpwatch, EarthRights International, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and Swiss-based Tiers Monde are among pressure groups behind the website, which will be administered by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, a non-profit research bureau based in Amsterdam.
Chief among the long-standing criticisms of the Compact are that companies can sign up and pay only lip-service to its principles. However, the Compact Office has responded to these concerns during the past two years by setting up a complaints mechanism and by throwing out more than 700 signatories that had not met certain reporting requirements. (EP9, issue 2, p1).
The Compact Office said that it ‘appreciates the interest’ of the creators of the website and suggested they might make its job easier by prompting companies to observe their Compact commitments.
But it said it thought critics may do better to take their complaints to the Compact’s civil society co-ordinator, Olajobi Makinwa, who would be ‘a more direct channel for expressing views and engaging in dialogue’.
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