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Welcome to class of Human Rights, UN, Millennium Development Goals and Businesses in Emerging Markets by Dr. Satyendra Singh University of Winnipeg Canada www.uwinnipeg.ca/~ssingh5. UN Global Compact, Business & HR. UN? Eco dev political progress democracy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to class of
Human Rights, UN, Millennium Development Goals and Businesses
in Emerging Markets
byDr. Satyendra Singh
University of WinnipegCanada
www.uwinnipeg.ca/~ssingh5
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UN Global Compact, Business & HR• UN? Eco dev political progress democracy • What is Global Compact? Universal consensus
– UN’s voluntary corporate initiative (Dec, 2007)• Human rights (2)• Labor conditions (4)• Environment (3)• Anti-corruption (1)
• 5000 business participants committed to UNGC• 40% from emerging/developing countries• Improves business performance/QOL• HR issues: Russia? China? India? Africa?
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Human Rights Principle 1• Support, respect and protect HR
– Commitment to UNGC– Understand sphere of influence supplier, stakeholders– Compliance with local and international law
• ↑ Lawsuits against multinationals for poor HR practices in EM• Promote and raise standards in EM
– Address consumer concerns– ↑ Worker productivity and retention
• Treat employees with dignity and give fair $ for their work – Build good community relations
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Human Rights Principle 2• Ensure businesses are not complicit in HR abuses• Accusations of complicity in a no of contexts
– Direct complicity actively assists in HR abuses• Forced relocation of peoples relating to business activity
– Beneficial HR abuses committed by others/security• Suppression of a peaceful protest against business activities• Use of repressive measures
– Silent failure to ↓ systemic HR violations• Discrimination ethnicity, gender, religion, health, etc.
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Labor Standards Principle 3• Uphold freedom of association and right to
collective bargaining– Freedom of association
• Freely, voluntarily establish and join asso of their own choice• Employers no discrimination against association members
– Collective bargaining• Employer and employees discuss and negotiate their relations• Position vs. interest-based bargaining negotiations
– Why is the freedom and collective bargaining important?• Employers and employees understand each other's problems
better and find ways to resolve them• Opportunities for constructive, and not confrontational dialogue
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Labor Standards Principle 4• Elimination of forced and compulsory labor
– Work extracted under the menace of penalty– Who has not offered himself or herself voluntarily– Who is not free to leave work as per established rules
• Slavery• Bonded labour or debt bondage work as slaves to repay debts of their parents• Child labour Abusive conditions Rugs, Mcdonald’s toys• Physical abduction or kidnapping• Sale of a person into the ownership of another• Physical confinement• Exploitative practices forced overtime• Lodging of deposits for employment $, personal documents, passport…• Deception or false promises about terms and types of work
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Labor Standards Principle 5• Abolition of child labor
– ILO conventions Minimum Age Convention No. 138– Minimum age for admission to employment or work
• Developed countries Developing countries• Light Work 13 Years Light Work 12 Years• Regular Work 15 YearsRegular Work 14 Years• Hazardous Work 18 Years Hazardous Work 18 Years
– Children have distinct rights• Child labour is damaging to a child’s physical, social, mental,
psychological and spiritual development • Deprives them of childhood, dignity; separates from families
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Apple, Samsung, Sony… use Cobalt in Lithium batteries
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Cobalt in Congo
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Labor Standards Principle 6• Elimination of discrimination in employment and occupation
– Treating differently or less favourably because of characteristics that are not related to the job
• race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, social origin, age, disability, HIV/AIDS status, trade union membership, and sexual orientation
• Recruitment, remuneration, hours of work and rest, paid holidays, maternity protection, security of tenure, job assignments, performance assessment and advancement, training and opportunities, job prospects, social security, occupational safety and health
– Isolates employer, missed opportunities, ↓ competitive, bad reputation…
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Environment Principle 7• Support precautionary approach to env. Challenges
– 1992 Rio Declaration If threat of serious or irreversible damage, use cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation
– What businesses can do?• Prevent environmental damage treatment costs more later
company image country image• Invest in sustainable production methods ↓ resources
depletion and env. degradation ↑ environment performance ↓ financial risk important consideration for insurers
• Invest in R&D to develop environmentally friendly products ↑ long-term benefits
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Environment Principle 8• Initiate to promote environmental responsibility
– 1992 Rio Earth Summit Business and industry should ↑ self regulation through initiatives integrated into business planning, decision-making, openness and dialogue with employees and the public.
– To ensure environmental responsibility:• Re-define company vision, policies and strategies 3BL• Work with suppliers to ↑ environmental performance• Adopt voluntary charters to confirm acceptable behaviour /perf. • Measure and communicate progress as business practices,
including reporting against global operating standards • Ensure transparency and unbiased dialogue with stakeholders
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Environment Principle 9• Encourage development and diffusion of
environmentally friendly technologies– That protects the environment, ↓ pollution, uses all
resources, recycles wastes and products and handles residual wastes in a more acceptable manner
• Establish a corporate or individual company policy• Inform stakeholders – env perf and benefits of the technology• Focus on R&D to ‘design for sustainability’. • Use Life Cycle Assessment to develop new tech and products• Employ Environmental Technology Assessment tools (EnTA) • Stipulate minimum environmental criteria for suppliers• Seek partners to obtain the “best available technology”
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Anti-corruption Principle 10• Work against all forms of corruption
– Corruption• the abuse of entrusted power for private gain
– Extortion• When asking or demand is accompanied by threats that
endanger the personal integrity or the life of the person– Bribery, Transparency International:
• gift, loan, fee, reward… from a person to do something dishonest, illegal or a breach of trust
– Steps to fight corruption• Internal: Anti-corruption policies within organizations• External: Report corruption in the annual Communication• Collective: Join forces with industry peers, stakeholders…
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MillenniumDevelopmentGoals (MDG)
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MillenniumDevelopmentGoals