Conflict, instability, displacement, discrimination, climate change – the world faces major social challenges around human development and human rights. These issues inspire global efforts to secure a truly sustainable and prosperous future for all.
Human rights are universal. This means that every person around the world deserves to be treated with dignity and have their interests considered equally. Governments have the duty to protect individuals against human rights abuses. The UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights also outline the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. Beyond this, businesses are increasingly recognizing their own moral, legal, and commercial role.
The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and
the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights form the basis for what businesses should adhere to.
On the one hand, businesses can hinder human rights, as evidenced by reports around the world of unsafe working conditions, migrant worker exploitation, and harm done to communities. On the other hand, businesses can help advance human rights by offering access to decent work, creating higher living standards, protecting people’s rights and procuring goods in a responsible manner.
As a bank, we make a substantial contribution to human rights as financier, employer, service provider and driver of progress and prosperity. Our impact is on different levels:
- Our workplace
- Our supply chain
- How we do business and who we do business with
- Partnering and sharing knowledge
In the most recent
Human Rights Report (2022/2023) of ING Group, we detail the reassessment of the most severe human rights issues with regards to our workforce and Wholesale Banking activities, and present our first assessment of salient human rights issues in our role as a procurer of goods and services.
Human rights and the workplace:
Our business centres around trust, as we can only maintain our stakeholders’ confidence and preserve our company’s reputation by acting with professionalism and integrity. This, and more, is all outlined in our
Orange Code – our ING set of values and behaviours.
Everyone working at ING Türkiye is expected to adhere to ING Group’s global code of conduct. It builds on our Orange Code – the values and behaviours that underpin our way of working – and is based on the policies and guidelines we follow in our daily business.
We value our employees and seek to be a good employer. We promote the personal and professional growth of our employees by providing good primary and secondary benefits and development opportunities. This creates an environment where our people not only do well but can also do good.