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Article 291 The Earth Community Organization (ECO) found a way of dealing with globalization: global ethics. In the past, corporations ruled without checks and balances. For now on global ethics will be a basic minimum to do business, and there will be checks and balances. Our judgement will be based on global ethics. Article 292 Global ethics must always be grounded in realities. But realities are changing constantly and are different in different places. We live in a world that makes progress toward democracy. Ethics and morality exist only when human beings can act freely. In our free society, rights are tied to responsibilities. Corporations are committed to improvement in business performance and want to be seen as 'good corporate citizens' on a local and a global scale. Corporations have social responsibilities as they are an integral part of society. Global ethics recalls that those realities, on which others build upon, have to be protected first. ECO has found that universal values and human rights as described above were the foundation of global ethics. Article 293 ECO has now at hand the method and framework to conduct societal checks and balances
of a global sustainable development. A more balanced world economy
will result of annual checks and balances. Corporations will take their
social responsibilities and become involved in designing, monitoring, and
implementing these checks and balances. Several corporations have already
done so. Results will be taken into account in the evaluation of
sustainable development. Corporations are required to expand their responsibilities
to include human rights, the environment, community and family aspects,
safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects. Article 294 Allowing the corporate sector to review their own activities and conducting their own checks and balances is like letting the fox guard the chicken coop, i.e. multinational corporations have a vested interest in making sure that they make money and go unpunished for breaking all rules. By the time we realize it was wrong to choose a world economic model based entirely on profit, it will be too late. The Earth ecosystem, our life-support system, will have been destroyed beyond repair. What to do about this situation? ECO is proposing to oversee such a system be put in place to the satisfaction of Earth Community. Articles 295 to 299 will be added later. Back to top of the page
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Article 300 Articles 300 to 310 will be added later.
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