Organizations around the world, and their stakeholders, are becoming increasingly aware of the need for and benefits of socially responsible behaviour. The objective of social responsibility is to contribute to sustainable development. In the long run, all organizations' activities depend on the health of the world's ecosystems. Organizations are subject to greater scrutiny by their various stakeholders. ISO 26000 is not a management system standard. It is not intended or appropriate for certification purposes or regulatory or contractual use. Any offer to certify, or claims to be certified, to ISO 26000 would be a misrepresentation of the intent and purpose and a misuse of this International Standard. As ISO 26000 does not contain requirements, any such certification would not be a demonstration of conformity with this International Standard. Source: iso.org
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How Geopolitical Change Alters Social and Environmental Standards
By Prof. Dr. Josef Wieland (University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz)
With the design of the ISO 26000 norm, the ISO picked up suggestions proposed by their own consumer organizations pertaining to social responsibility in companies operating in global markets. In June 2002, the consumer policy committee met to discuss this subject. In the run-up to this meeting, a report entitled The Desirability and Feasibility of ISO CSR Standards was created. The first ISO meeting was held in 2004 in Sweden and determined that the standard would not be a corporate social responsibility (CSR) but an SR standard.
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ISO 26000 - so what?
By Maria Lazarte (ISO)
As the ISO 26000 guidance standard on social responsibility reaches its second anniversary, ISO Secretary-General, Rob Steele, challenged participants at a two-day open forum in Geneva, Switzerland, to consider what has been done so far, and where the road should take us next, by asking, "So what?"
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Developing countries exchange ISO 26000 experience at ISO workshop
By International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Some 120 participants from about 70 countries are exchanging their experience on ISO 26000:2010, Guidance on social responsibility. The workshop is organized by the Development and Training Services of ISO.
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'Ocean-grabbing' as serious a threat as ‘land-grabbing’ – UN expert on right to food
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, warned of the threat of ‘ocean-grabbing’ to food security, and urged world governments and international bodies to halt the depletion of fish stocks, and take urgent steps to protect, sustain, and share the benefits of fisheries and marine environments.
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Africa Can Feed Itself, Earn Billions, and Avoid Food Crises by Unblocking Regional Food Trade
World Bank
A new World Bank report says that Africa’s farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food crises if countries remove cross-border restrictions on the food trade within the region. According to the Bank, the continent would also generate an extra US$20 billion in yearly earnings if African leaders can agree to dismantle trade barriers that blunt more regional dynamism. The report was released on the eve of an African Union (AU) ministerial summit in Addis Ababa on agriculture and trade.
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New York Stock Exchange Listing Standards and Corporate Social Responsibility
Prof. Celia Taylor (University of Denver Sturm College of Law)
Although attention to corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues is wide-spread in the United States (US), laws regarding compliance with CSR standards and disclosure of CSR practices in the US lag behind that of other countries. Countries such as Sweden, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, the UK and others have mandated the disclosure of corporate social responsibility data.[1] While each country does so in a different way as a start they follow the EU Modernization Directive[2] and some, such as Denmark and Sweden have adopted more detailed legislation on CSR reporting. Moreover, since 2009, the Dutch Corporate Governance Code mandates boards of listed companies to formulate a CSR policy and have this approved by the Supervisory Board and to communicate this to the shareholders.[3]
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