Rimes has joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative (UNGC) — a voluntary leadership platform for developing, implementing, and disclosing responsible business practices. Rimes is now part of a growing group of thousands of companies globally committed to taking responsible business action to create the world we all want.
The UN Global Compact calls companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles. These ten principles are in the areas of human rights human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and taking action to support UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 15,000 companies and 3,800 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries and more than 69 Local Networks.