ABSTRACT
The concept of human security is an attempt to treat the issue of security as an issue of individuals rather than as an issue between nations. It was the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that identified human security as a new development issue in its Human Development Report 1994. According to this report, 'human security' has seven dimensions: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. The UN Global Compact is a soft-law approach to establishing a norm of ethical business practice by inviting the private sector as a positive force in a multi-sector pursuit of human security. At the heart of human security are the human-centred objectives of peace and development. Given the scale of the challenge, it follows that those playing a role in providing human security are not only states or state-made institutions but also non-state actors at both local and global levels: namely civil society and the private sector.
