1. Forced Labour or Child Labour in Hazardous Working Conditions
Forced Labour means all work or service, not voluntarily performed, that is extracted from an individual under threat of force or penalty as defined by ILO conventions, UNGC Principles and/or local legislations.
To address the issue of Child Labour, persons may only be employees if they are at least 14 years old, as defined in the ILO Fundamental Human Rights Conventions (Minimum Age Convention C138, Art. 2), unless local legislation specifies compulsory school attendance or the minimum age for working. In such cases the higher age shall apply.
2. Any product or activity deemed illegal under host country laws or regulations or international conventions and agreements, or subject to international phase-outs or bans, such as:
3. Cross-border trade in waste and waste products, unless compliant with the Basel Convention and the underlying regulations.
4. Financing in Coal Power and Mining activities such as
5. Destruction of High Conservation Value areas.
Destruction means the (1) elimination or severe diminution of the integrity of an area caused by a major, long-term change in land or water use or (2) modification of a habitat in such a way that the area’s ability to maintain its role is lost.
6. Radioactive materials.
This does not apply to the purchase of medical equipment, quality control (measurement) equipment or any other equipment where the radioactive source is understood to be trivial and/or adequately shielded.
7. Unbounded asbestos fibres.
This does not apply to purchase and use of bonded asbestos cement sheeting where the asbestos content is less than 20%.
8. Pornography or prostitution.
9. Racist and anti-democratic media
10. Commercial logging operations for use in primary tropical moist forest
Illegal logging, and logging operations or conversion of land for plantation use in primary tropical moist forests.
11. Production or trade in wood or other forestry products other than from sustainably managed forests
12. Production of trade in radioactive materials and unbounded asbestos fibres.
13. Production or activities that impinge on the lands owned, or claimed under adjudication,
by Indigenous Peoples, without full documented consent of such peoples.
14. Ship breaking/ trading activities which include:
15. In the event of any of the following products form a substantial part of a company’s primary operations, or a financial institution, investment fund or company’s financed business activities.
