Norm on responsibility and Responsibility of norms: the ISO 26000 case

The ISO 26000 standard is the first international standard that may be qualified as fourth generation. After a long elaboration process which involved 80 countries and 40 international organizations, it should be published next year. Its precise designation is “guidance on social responsibility”.

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ISO 26000 - Guidelines for social responsibility

ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, has decided to launch the development of an International Standard providing guidelines for social responsibility (SR).
The guidance standard will be published in 2010 as ISO 26000 and be voluntary to use. It will not include requirements and will thus not be a certification standard.

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Relationship UNGC and ISO about ISO 26000

Thanks to twitter we have been able to learn quickly about the concerns of UNGC related to the future ISO 26000 and exchanges of point of views between the UNGC (United Nation Global Compact) and the ISO (International Standardization Organisation).

Hereafter is part of an article by the Global Compact Critics website on "ISO gently responds to terse letter from Global Compact".

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