The United Nations Global Compact (GC) is an international learning network that links companies with United Nations agencies, labour and civil society. Neither a regulatory regime nor a voluntary code of industry conduct, it is a unique contribution to the process of global governance, where...

The United Nations Global Compact – which is a Global Public Policy Network advocating ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption – has turned into the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative. Although...

Across the globe, the 'Girl Effect' is a growing but understudied initiative that assumes that girls are catalysts capable of bringing social and economic change to their families, communities and countries. In an attempt to build on the 'promise' of women as agents of development, there has...