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World’s Leading Experts On Business Ethics Gather For Summit On Corporate Citizenship

World’s Leading Experts On Business Ethics Gather For Summit On Corporate Citizenship

Published 05-04-04

Submitted by International Center for Corporate Accountability

New York, NY - The first-ever, face-to-face gathering of the leading figures in corporate accountability worldwide—including representatives of multinationals and the organizations that monitor them—is set to provide a forum for setting up voluntary codes of conduct for the labor and environmental practices of major global businesses. Co-hosted by the International Center for Corporate Accountability, a nongovernmental organization that has audited several multinationals, the Wharton School and the World Bank Institute, the four-day conference, May 12-15 at the new campus of Baruch College/City University of New York in Manhattan, will bring together representatives of Mattel, Ford, Novartis, MacDonald’s, Disney, Freeport McMoran, Copper & Gold with many of the most prominent civil society organizations devoted to workers’ rights and the environment worldwide, including the Fund for Peace (Washington, D.C.), Global Social Compliance (New York, NY) and Investor Responsibility Research Center (Washington, D.C.). Over two hundred delegates from every continent will gather to discuss such hot-button issues as human rights and working conditions, bribery and corruption, environmental protection and sustainable development and corporate ethics. The discussions are open to the press and speakers will be available for interviews.

The International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc. (“ICCA”) is a not-for-profit watchdog organization dedicated to raising the standards set by multinational corporations for governing worker conditions at their affiliated manufacturing facilities and ensuring that the environmental impact of these factories is within the limits of sustainable development. The New York-based ICCA assists companies, such as Mattel, in devising codes of conduct for their manufacturing facilities worldwide, and monitors compliance with these comprehensive principles while providing an unprecedented body of research on policies and procedures, strategies and standards that will assist large corporations, journalists, scholars and policymakers in the rapidly changing field of workers’ human rights, sustainable development and discrimination based on religion, race, ethnic orientation and gender. The ICCA is governed by scholars and representatives of public interest groups with extensive experience in developing countries where they have worked on issues pertaining to the environment, children, poverty and working conditions. In addition to field “audits” of corporate facilities, a major component of the ICCA’s work consists of the dissemination of the most recent thinking and best practices in the field of corporate ethics through conferences, publications and a Web site, www.ICCA-corporateaccountability.org.

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