United Nations Global Compact (UNGC): The non-binding UN guidelines encouraging businesses globally to adopt & report the implementation of sustainable and socially responsible policies. The UNGC includes ten principles covering human rights, labor, environment, and corruption aspects. The list of UNGC signatories is updated on a weekly basis Moreover, non-signatory companies are also screened against the 10 principles to ensure abidance or violation of such standards. Users have access to a list of UNGC signatories, UNGC delisted companies, and a list of companies abiding by these principles even if not signatories.

SDGs: A set of 17 global goals set by the UN in 2015 with a target of achieving them by 2030. Companies are screened against being involved in attaining these goals or not. Accordingly, users have access to; list of companies explicitly mentioning they are involved in SDGs, list of SDGs per company, and a list of companies not mentioning they are involved in SDGs, but their community development programs have been mapped against the 17 goals.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): Drafted and proclaimed in 1948 by the UN, the UDHR has become the most well-known global guidelines related to human rights. Under these guidelines 30 pertinent articles have been documented. IdealRatings has matched these articles with its own questions to confirm a company’s abidance by these norms. Companies abiding by the UDHR and relevant questions are available at IdealRatings service.

International Labor Standards (ILO): Set almost 100 years ago, ILO has been working under the auspice of the UN advocating justice and decent work standards for labor. The morals have been set to be applied on a country basis; however, given the relevant violations occurring on corporate level it is now considered as an integral part of a company’s level code of conduct. Companies abiding by the ILO standards and relevant questions are available at IdealRatings service.