{"title":"Private Sector","authors":"Craig N. Murphy","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803164.013.19","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The UN’s relations with the private sector initially followed the pattern of the League of Nations in occasionally relying on funding from business leaders or their foundations. In the 1970s, the UN had a more confrontational approach to transnational corporations and established a code of conduct for their operations. This approach ended in the 1990s, when the UN began subcontracting some activities both to NGOs and TNCs. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought to collaborate with companies to enforce global human rights, labor, and environmental standards through the Global Compact, a body endorsed by thousands of companies but with little impact. Nonetheless, cooperative partnerships with private companies have become a characteristic way in which the UN delivers development services.","PeriodicalId":117675,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803164.013.19","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The UN’s relations with the private sector initially followed the pattern of the League of Nations in occasionally relying on funding from business leaders or their foundations. In the 1970s, the UN had a more confrontational approach to transnational corporations and established a code of conduct for their operations. This approach ended in the 1990s, when the UN began subcontracting some activities both to NGOs and TNCs. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought to collaborate with companies to enforce global human rights, labor, and environmental standards through the Global Compact, a body endorsed by thousands of companies but with little impact. Nonetheless, cooperative partnerships with private companies have become a characteristic way in which the UN delivers development services.
联合国与私营部门的关系最初遵循了国际联盟(League of Nations)的模式,偶尔依赖商业领袖或其基金会的资助。上世纪70年代,联合国对跨国公司采取了一种更具对抗性的态度,并为它们的业务制定了一套行为准则。这种做法在20世纪90年代结束,当时联合国开始将一些活动分包给非政府组织和跨国公司。联合国秘书长科菲·安南(Kofi Annan)寻求与企业合作,通过全球契约(global Compact)执行全球人权、劳工和环境标准。该组织得到了数千家企业的认可,但影响力不大。尽管如此,与私营公司的合作伙伴关系已成为联合国提供发展服务的一种特有方式。