For leather goods company Adiantes, ensuring fair living wages is about more than just setting salaries above national or local averages — it’s about long-term financial stability for its employees.

After starting his job as a lab assistant at a Michelin Group plant in Bahia, Brazil, Marcus Vinicius Martins Lavrador could afford to buy a car, which proved to be a boon to his family’s standard of ...

In September 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted a plan for achieving a better future for all — laying out a path over the next 15 years to end extreme poverty, fight inequality ...

Inspire participants’ organizational learning, and support companies to develop and implement corporate sustainability strategies, operations and management practices in line with the Global Compact ...

The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted in September 2016 by the UN General Assembly calls for the active participation of the private sector in implementing the commitments made ...

The first-ever UN Global Compact Academy session featured a conversation between Lise Kingo & Professor John Ruggie on the role your company can play in achieving the Global Goals, and how a ...

An SDG Pioneer for Climate Action through Resource Efficiency in Water and Waste Management Jean-Louis Chaussade has shaped a five-year Sustainable Development Roadmap that will help Suez keep ...

Farzana Chowdhury has seen first-hand how women in Bangladesh are still deprived of their basic rights and are subject to discrimination in many areas of their lives. She has made it her mission to ...

After an inspiring trip to the Amazon Rainforest, Ulisses Matiolli Sabará was profoundly impacted by witnessing the lack of opportunities many people face in this region. It was the impetus he needed ...

Post-harvest losses represent one of the biggest challenges smallholder farmers face in Malawi. Without proper storage facilities to hold their agricultural outputs, farmers are forced to sell their ...

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