The United Nations launched the operational phase of the Global Compact on July 26, 2000. The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed the Global Compact at The World Economic Forum in January 1999. The Global Compact challenged business leaders to join an international initiative with the UN agencies, labor and civil society to work on nine principles (which have since grown to 10) to work toward better conditions in the fields of human rights, labor and environment.
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