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• The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. (Homepage).
• Corporate Citizenship in The World Economy, 6 pdf pages.

Key Documents and Core UN Agencies (about, scroll down and click on links);
Participate; Communicate; Participants, Stakeholders; Local Networks; Issues; News, events; Foundation; UN homepage;
Contacts.

About: Overview of the UN Global Compact – The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.  Continuer la lecture de « Global Compact of the United Nations »

(also in espanol, français, portugues)

Linked with US aid, with Chemonics.com, and with US aid Partners with Swedish Development Agency.

• 1): Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET ) is a lead organization in the field of prediction and response to famines and other forms of food security. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (US aid) since its creation in 1985, it analyzes a variety of data and information, such as market prices of food, precipitation and crop failures to predict when and where food insecurity will occur, and issues alerts on predicted crises … (full long article on wikipedia)… (*);
• 2): FEWS Net’s english Homepage on the US aid website;

Who; Why; Approach; Products, services and its Catalogue; Livelihoods; Markets, Trade; Login; Partners: NOAA and USGS;
Contacts and addresses of regionals and by countries;
Contact with US aid: Gary Eilerts, e-mail.

About: The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is a USAID-funded activity that collaborates with international, regional and national partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.  Continuer la lecture de « Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS Net »

• Sustainabilitylive! is the home of five leading environment exhibitions, including BEX, ET, IWEX, NEMEX and SB – The Event. These exhibitions include hundreds of exhibitors, insightful seminars and conferences, interactive feature areas and lots more.
• The 2010 show will take place a month earlier this year; on 20-22 April 2010 in halls 3 and 3a at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. For more information on exhibiting or visiting please click on the relevant tabs.  … (full text Welcome Page).

Exhibitor Zone Login; Visiting; Register; Awards; Seminars, events; Partners; Brochure;
Address: Faversham House Group, Faversham House, 232a Addington Road, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 8LE, UK;
Contact.

Are we sustainable? As the sustainable industries event we are conscious of the fact we need to be leading the way and doing the best we can to make our event as sustainable as possible.
With this in mind for 2010 we have implemented a variety of initiatives to help Sustainabilitylive! work towards becoming a more sustainable event. Continuer la lecture de « Sustainabilitylive 2010 »

Linked on our blogs with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF.

• Reaching Critical Will strives for the abolition of nuclear weapons. As a project of the oldest women’s peace organisation in the world, RCW recognises that nuclear weapons play an integral role in the militarism, ecological destruction, and social injustice plauging our world today. Therefore, RCW works not just for nuclear abolition but also for total and universal disarmament, the reduction of global military spending, and demilitarisation of politics and society.
• Disarmament cannot be for the sake of disarmament itself. It must be for the promotion of true human security and all life on the planet. To advocate successfully for nuclear disarmament and human security, civil society needs to establish a discourse that helps us to understand the relationship between nuclear weapons and the structures that maintain them and to identify those who benefit from the maintenance of nuclear weapons. Reaching Critical Will seeks to help this discourse … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Staff, Interns; News; Action; Critical Issues; Treaties;
Address: Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF, UN Office, 777 UN Plaza, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10017, USA;
Contact.

About WILPF.  Continuer la lecture de « Reaching Critical Will »