Category: Political and social philosophies (philosophy). Each language text below is one published, write-once file; the CID is computed over its exact bytes and is what an IFP-21 citation pins.
Restatement per IFP-22 Section 2.3. The Global Compact's site content is not free-licensed; this entry is the registry's own prose describing what the Ten Principles hold, as of the accessed date. Version string is the year the tenth principle completed the set.
The UN Global Compact asks businesses to build ten principles into their strategy, policy, and daily operation — a floor of fundamental responsibility in four areas, deliberately broad and portable across countries and industries. The principles were announced with the Compact's launch in 2000 and completed in 2004, when the anti-corruption principle was added. Each derives from an instrument governments have already negotiated: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the UN Convention Against Corruption. The authoritative wording is at the source URL; this entry describes the principles in the registry's own words.
Human rights. A business should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights (Principle 1), and make sure it is not complicit in human-rights abuses committed by others (Principle 2).
Labour. A business should uphold freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining (Principle 3), and work toward the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour (Principle 4), the effective abolition of child labour (Principle 5), and the elimination of discrimination in employment and occupation (Principle 6).
Environment. A business should take a precautionary approach to environmental challenges (Principle 7), undertake initiatives that promote greater environmental responsibility (Principle 8), and encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies (Principle 9).
Anti-corruption. A business should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery (Principle 10).
The Compact's framing insists the principles come as a set: good practice in one area does not offset harm in another, and a signatory enacts the same values wherever it operates.
Prepared from the instrument as published at the source URL, read as of the accessed date. Corrections ship as a superseding version; this version remains published because citations to it remain outstanding (IFP-22, Sections 2.3 and 4).