PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

BBLF and UN Global Compact - Partners for Action in Corporate Ethics

On February 2nd, 2004, BBLF joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as its official partner for promoting the values of its private sector programme, The Global Compact. The two organizations have joined their efforts in encouraging the implementation of Global Compact's 10 fundamental principles in everyday business practice.

The Principles were introduced as a challenge to the business community to ‘embrace and enact' by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the World Economic Forum in Davos 1999.

The ten principles of the UN Global Compact include:

Human rights:
Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights within their sphere of influence; and
Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

Labour standards
Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and
Principle 6: eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

Environment
Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

Anticorruption
Principle 10: Businesses should support Anticorruption and Transparency policy.

BBLF and UN Global Compact Promote Ethical Business in Varna, August 11, 2004
More than 100 companies from Varna and the region discussed the principles of ethical business at a meeting hosted by Varna Mayor Mr. Kiril Yordanov on August 11, 2004. BBLF and United Nations Global Compact joined efforts to present the ethical values in business at a meeting called "The future is only for the ethical business". more...

First ‘CSR In Action' Conference - BBLF and UN Global Compact, April 27, 2004

Representatives of the Bulgarian and international business, the government, a number of NGOs and diplomats took part in the ‘Corporate Social Responsibility in Action' national conference in the National Art Gallery in Sofia.
"I am glad to see the strong commitment of the private sector in Bulgaria in its work towards sustainable development , social integration and implementation of the new EU business standards. more...