"This report was prepared by the “Consumer Protection in the Global Market” Working Group of COPOLCO, the Consumer Policy Committee of ISO (the International Organization for Standardization). ... The report identifies a wide number of corporate responsibility (CR) initiatives currently in place or about to become operational, emanating from inter-governmental bodies, individual governments, investment-driven entities, recognized standards bodies, and from various other industry, non-governmental, faith-based, and multi-stakeholder organizations. Analysis suggests that the existing initiatives are evidence of a considerable degree of engagement from all sectors of society on corporate responsibility issues, and that considerable progress has been made toward devising workable approaches. However, there is a tremendous range in quality, content, comprehensiveness and operability among them. ..."

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