UNIAPAC - Description
AIMS
UNIAPAC is an international meeting place for Christian Business Executives which aims:
 to promote Christian Social thought
within the business world and Society,
work for an Economy serving Mankind, the dignity of the human person
and the
Common Good.
provide inspiration and support for leaders who are willing
to transform their business
endeavours into a Noble Vocation.
In carrying out such aims UNIAPAC members commit themselves to:
Formation
of themselves, so as to be seen as examples
for their contemporaries.
Transformation
of their own companies and business environments so their
work is
seen as a noble vocation and
Contribution to and
construction of a fairer and more humane society.
Mission and Actions
UNIAPAC is an ecumenical organization which is an international non-profit organization.
Headquaartered in Paris it federates associations
all around the world. Its full name is the "International Christian Union of Business Executives".
Inspired by christian Social Thought, its goal is to promote amongst business
leaders, the vision and implementation of an economy which serves the human
person and the Common Good of humanity at large. Thus UNIAPAC advocates for a
free economy based on respect for the dignity of the person and a sense of the
Common Good.
Within the Network
UNIAPAC promotes the transformation of companies towards contributing to the
construction of a more just and humane society.
In doing this it encouratges personal development and training within companies and
it serves as a link between Christian associations of business executives across the world. In the facilitation of
exchanges between companies, UNIAPAC membership
is recognised worldwide for its distinctive promotion of business as a Noble Vocation.
At the present time UNIAPAC gathers Christian Business Leaders Associations
from 40 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. It represents more than
45,000 very active business executives around the world, working in various leading
sectors of the world economy.
Worldwide there are more than 100,000 business executives connected to
UNIAPAC and thus it creates a global network of more than 3,000,000 people.
History of UNIAPAC
UNIAPAC was "born" in 1931 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Encyclical "Rerum Novarum". It was founded by the Dutch,
Belgian and French Catholic Employers
Federations and with observers from Italy, Germany and Czechoslovakia, as 'Conferences
Internationales des Associations de patrons Catholiques".
Major steps in the evolution of UNIAPAC are as follows:
1946Creation of UNIAPAC
A.H.M. Albregst prepared the final establishment of UNIAPAC as
an organisation under the name "Union Internationale des Associations Patronales Catholiques".
1975
First edition of UNIAPAC World Congress
UNIAPAC launched the "Churches Transnational Corporations" Dialogue in Europe. The
origin of these Dialogues was the development of a consciousness, on the part of business
and the Churches, of the role of business in society.
1991
Rerum Novarum
UNIAPAC commemorated in Rome the centenary of Rerum Novarum" - the first social
Encyclical (1891) - and presented to His Holiness John-Paul II, the book The churches
facing the enterprise - a Hundred Years of Social Thinking.
1991
UNIAPAC Foundation
Creation of the UNIAPAC Foundation, the founding partner of UNIAPAC International.
Contact Details
Address:26 rue de l/Amiral Harnelin, 75116 Paris
Email:
Rodrigo.whitelaw@uniapac.org
Mariana.alsac@uniapac.org
33(0)1 55 73 07 54
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