Following the one-year anniversary of the launch of the "Children's Rights and Business Principles", Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, and Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, issued a joint letter urging business to do more with the aim to create an economical realty coherent with needs and rights of all children worldwide. In particular, the joint letter calls on business to effectively address child labour within business operations and the value chain, for instance through a substantial investment in primary and secondary education. For further information on Letter contents, click here

On Thursday 13 October 2011, Edison has proposed a training on Human Rights for its employees in Milan. The training session has been organized by the Global Compact Network Italy in cooperation with the Staff College of Turin. There has been a focus on the Labour Righst and on the HR Risk Assessment Tools. All the GCNI HR Working Group has been invited to participate at the meeting. The event speaker were: Mrs Maria Vasquez, ILO Training Center; Mrs Francesca Magliulo, CSR Manager Edison and Mr Marco Frey, Chairman GCNI.

The last United Nations Annual Review is on-line. The Annual Review is a comprehensive annual study that assesses how – and to what extent – participating companies are implementing the ten principles; taking action in support of broader UN goals and issues; and engaging with the Global Compact locally and globally. At the center of the review are the findings from the Annual Global Compact Implementation Survey.

Global Compact Implementation Survey

The implementation survey is an annual, anonymous online survey of Global Compact participants worldwide, conducted to take stock of environmental and social performance and identify trends and developments related to corporate sustainability issues. All companies participating in the Global Compact are invited to take the survey - available in multiple languages - which is conducted annually in November/December. The survey is administered and analysed by a team of MBA and doctoral candidates at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.