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See also the following sections of this website:

• Company statements of policy on human rights: General materials
• Corporate codes of conduct
• Company reports on human rights issues
• Links: Companies

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• If you are aware of other companies that should be added to this list, please contact the website manager: [email protected]

• Companies that sign onto the U.N. Global Compact have expressed support for the 9 Global Compact principles, including "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." The list below does not include all Global Compact companies; the list includes only companies that have taken the step of adopting a formal company policy statement explicitly referring to human rights (whether or not they have signed onto the Global Compact)

1. Company human rights policy statements that include explicit reference to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

• ABB:

  • "Social Policy"

• Ahold:

  • "Ahold and Human Rights"

• Amerada Hess:

  • "Corporate Social Responsibility policy"

• Balfour Beatty: 

  • "Human Rights Policy"

• BG Group: 

  • "Business Principles - Ethical Principles" [see section entitled "Human rights"]

• The Body Shop: 

  • "Trading Charter"

• BP:

  • "Human Rights"

  • "Ethical conduct"

• BT Group:

  • "Human Rights"

• CGNU Group: 

  • "CGNU Group Human Rights Policy"

• Conoco:  

  • "Conoco and Social Progress"

• Co-operative Bank:

  • "Our revised Ethical Policy"

• Diageo:

  • "Human Rights Policy" [download from webpage entitled "Improving our effectiveness"]

• Freeport-McMoRan: 

  • "Social, Employment & Human Rights Policy"

• GlaxoSmithKline: 

  • "The Impact of Medicines: Corporate and Social Responsibility Report 2002" [see section entitled "Human Rights"]

• Ikea:

  • "social & environmental policy"

• National Grid:

  • "Respect human rights"

• Norsk Hydro:

  • "Social responsibility principles"

  • "Commitments"

• Novo Group:

• "Commitments"

• Novo Nordisk:

• Novo Nordisk positions: Human Rights (Novo Nordisk)

• Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)

• Premier Oil:

  • "Our human rights policy"

• Reebok: 

  • "Human Rights Productions Standards" 

  • "Code of Conduct for Factories" 

  • "Human Rights"

•  Rio Tinto:

  • "The way we work: Our statement of business practice"

  • "Human rights guidance: Guidance for managers on implementing the human rights policy in The way we work" [link is to Rio Tinto's "Human rights" webpage, from which the document can be downloaded] 

• Shell: 

  • "Our General Business Principles" [see principle 2(e)]

  • "Our approach to human rights" 

  • Management Primer on Business and Human Rights 

  • Human Rights - the Role of Business: Why should business be involved with protecting human rights?

• Skanska:

  • "Skanska Code of Conduct" [link is to "Skanska's Mission" page, from which "Code of Conduct" can be downloaded...see section of Code of Conduct entitled "General Principles"]

• Stora Enso: 

  • "Principles for Corporate Social Responsibility"

• Storebrand Group:  

  • "Storebrand's policy for Corporate Social Responsibility" [download from Storebrand page entitled "Corporate Social Responsibility Report"]

• Talisman Energy:

  • "Addressing Human Rights Concerns [Sudan]"

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2000

  • Talisman Issues Corporate Social Responsibility Report (Talisman Energy, 10 Apr. 2001)

• TotalFinaElf: 

  • "Code of Conduct" [download Code of Conduct - see section entitled "More generally"]

  • {···français} TotalFinaElf: "Le code de conduite"

• Unocal:  

  • "Unocal Code of Conduct: Business Ethics - Human Rights, Labor and Community Issues"

2. Other company policy statements that refer to human rights:

• ABN AMRO:  

  • "Business Principles" [see principle 9]

• Akzo Nobel:  

  • "Our values" [see section 2: "Our Business Principles - Responsibilities"]

• Bonnier Group:  

  • "Business, ethics and responsibility" [download "Annual Review 2001", a very slow download, then go to page 5]

• British Airways:

  • "Code of Conduct" [see section entitled "Business conduct"]

• Cadbury Schweppes:

  • "Human Rights and Ethical Trading Policy" [see section entitled "Our Policy"]

• ChevronTexaco:  

• "Human Rights"

• Dalhoff Larsen & Horneman A/S (DLH Group):

• "DLH Annual Report 2001" [link is to "The DLH Group - Annual accounts 2001"...download English version of Annual Report, see pg. 22, section entitled "DLH and its employees"]

• FLS Industries: 

• "FLS Ethics"

• ICI: 

  • "Sustainable Development Policy" [see principle 4]

• Lundin Petroleum: 

  • "Code of Conduct: Values" [download Code of Conduct, see section entitled "Values"]

• Nokia:

  • "Ethical Conduct Commitment: Human Rights"

• SCA:

  •  "Social Responsibility" [see section entitled "SCA promotes the freedom of speech"]

• Statoil:

  • "Showing social responsibility"