Editing United Nations Global Compact (section)

==The Ten Principles==
The UN Global Compact was initially launched with the first nine Principles. On 24 June 2004, during the first Global Compact Leaders Summit, Kofi Annan announced the addition of the tenth principle against [[Political corruption|corruption]] in accordance with the [[United Nations Convention against Corruption|United Nations Convention Against Corruption]] adopted in 2003.<ref name="Jonge">{{cite book |last1=Jonge |first1=Alice de |last2=Tomasic |first2=Roman |title=Research Handbook on Transnational Corporations |date=27 January 2017 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-78347-691-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PaXfDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA126 |language=en}}</ref>

{{Cquote|''Human Rights''
*1 Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and
*2 Make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

''Labour''
*3 Businesses should uphold the [[freedom of association]] and the effective recognition of the right to [[collective bargaining]];
*4 The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
*5 The effective abolition of child labour; and
*6 The elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

''Environment''
*7 Businesses should support a [[Precautionary principle|precautionary approach]] to environmental challenges;
*8 Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
*9 Encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

''Anti-Corruption''
*10 Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including [[extortion]] and [[bribery]].}}

The Ten Principles represent a set of core values drawn from major international agreements.<ref name="Therien">{{cite journal |last1=Therien |first1=Jean-Philippe |last2=Pouliot |first2=Vincent |title=The Global Compact: Shifting the Politics of International Development |journal=Global Governance |date=2006 |volume=12 |pages=55–76 |doi=10.1163/19426720-01201006 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/glogo12&div=13&id=&page=|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
The Ten Principles and the  UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are considered to be strongly aligned with [[Pope Francis]]'  Encyclical {{lang|it|[[Laudato Si']]}}, sharing  "a common vision for business".<ref name="Laudato">{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Oliver F. |title=The United Nations Global Compact and the Encyclical Laudato Si: A special theme issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (Issue 64) |date=21 April 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-94942-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3y6EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 |language=en}}</ref> Both call for wide social engagement and the involvement of both business and civil society.<ref name="Moody-Stuart">{{cite journal |last1=Moody-Stuart |first1=Mark |title=An Overview from the Point of View of the UN Global Compact |journal=The Journal of Corporate Citizenship |date=2016 |volume=2016 |issue=64 |pages=23–32 |doi=10.9774/GLEAF.4700.2016.de.00005 |jstor=90003788 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90003788 |issn=1470-5001|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Jennings">{{cite journal |last1=Jennings |first1=Anne |title=Laudato Si? : Establishing Local Approaches for Global Ecological Conversion |journal=Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development |date=2018 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=31–47 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/JENLS}}</ref>