My first thought is this is another cog in the wheel towards a one world government. I hope I'm wrong.


Social Responsibility
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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.

There is a range of many different opinions as to the right approach ranging from strict legislation at one end to complete freedom at the other. We are looking for a golden middle way that promotes respect and responsibility based on known reference documents without stifling creativity and development.

Our work will aim to encourage voluntary commitment to social responsibility and will lead to common guidance on concepts, definitions and methods of evaluation.

The need for organizations in both public and private sectors to behave in a socially responsible way is becoming a generalized requirement of society. It is shared by the stakeholder groups that are participating in the WG SR to develop ISO 26000: industry, government, labour, consumers, nongovernmental organizations and others, in addition to geographical and gender-based balance.

ISO has chosen SIS, Swedish Standards Institute and ABNT, Brazilian Association of Technical Standards to provide the joint leadership of the ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility (WG SR). The WG SR has been given the task of drafting an International Standard for social responsibility that will be published in 2010 as ISO 26000.

We invite you to come and learn more about SR.


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What lead me to looks at the ISO 26000 website was an article in the Hill Country News website- the following is an excerpt. http://www.hillcountrynews.com/artic...ews/news29.txt

Villarreal's dissertation was on the potential effects the forthcoming ISO 26000 (global guidelines on social responsibility) may have on current NAFTA labor practices.

He overlaid ISO 26000 as it is today on current NAALC provisions and practices (NAALC is the labor portion of the NAFTA agreements), and did so by surveying NAFTA and ISO experts from all over the world with a specific concentration on North American experts. He believes he's the only person in the world to have gauged potential impacts of ISO 26000 on any current labor practice.