Corporate lobby groups working directly and through national governments have weakened environmental agreements and influenced important regulatory documents affecting health and safety. Even civil society groups participating in the Global Compact like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have serious reservations about the lack of monitoring and enforcement provisions. To bring private sector resources into humanitarian issues, as government donations dry up. To seek political support from powerful corporations. It asks companies to enact in their own corporate practices nine basic principles that are distilled from key environmental, labor and human rights agreements.
Corporate participation is voluntary.
There is no screening process. There is no independent monitoring or enforcement of the Compact. Many of the signatories to the Global Compact have violated the very same principles of human rights that the UN stands for. These include Shell Oil, Nike and Rio Tinto. This project was abandoned after international outcry.