February 13, 2018

To our stakeholders
I am pleased to confirm that Hadeel A. Hasan & Partners Law Office reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely Yours;

Hadeel A. Hasan
Founder and Manager

As a law firm; human rights represents one of the professional ethical standards we commit to when dealing with all parties. such standards extend to cover our day-to-day dealings with service suppliers in all areas. This is clearly addressed within our office "Policies in Force" that our office and its members adopt and adhere to, as we consider the human rights as an essential factor in our dealings. We believe in the fundamental dignity of every human being and in respecting individual rights. We are committed to respecting human rights as recognized by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its subsequent changes, and the core labor standards set out by the Iraqi labor Code and the International Labor Organization as applied in Iraq, both within our workplace and more broadly within our sphere of influence. We have policies and management systems in place to ensure that we do so.

Despite the difficulties faced by all society in all aspects of injustice and oppression, our office is not only working to raise awareness and work towards justice and guarantee human rights, but we insist on its application among our employees by raising them and urging them to implement justice and equality among them aiming to put in force the human rights published and adopted by our office.
Our office maintains an active monitoring system for applying human rights by assigning the proper experts and personnel in this area and by allocating a considerable time and efforts to achieve proper monitoring and immunization for any possible breach.

Along with our office career, the principles of Human Rights had sustained and applied more effectively day after day, as well as the means and approaches to be adopted for curing breaches related thereof.
Setting basic rules for respecting Human Rights have been effectively considered and effective application of those rules is being closely monitored by the management and consistently reported. Practical actions for maintaining any deviation to those rules took place equally on every level be applying public notifications and certain fines/deductions in some cases.

As an office incorporated and operating in Iraq; the labor force rights goes in line with Iraqi Labor Law. Where all employees enjoy equal rights in terms of their assigned responsibilities and rights, always taking into account the highest measures of transparency when dealing with each employee by the higher management which starts with the tasks assigned and extend to cover the issues arising thereof and means to resolve those in the most efficient manner.
Regardless of the personnel position in the office functional structure; above terms apply to all without exception.
In addition to the compensations our office personnel receive; our office adopt the higher standards of labor rights and self-evaluation; being applied through concluding annual or half-annual meetings monitoring each personnel achievements during that year and allowing that personnel to make a self-estimation for annual reward which the office complies with and release to the favor of that personnel.

Our office maintains a self-assessment strategy and take upon itself the responsibility to aware the employees of implementing such strategy. In addition to that; our office management adopts a transparent approach for monitoring the employees' attitudes and keep control of those to correct any possible breach/deviation for the path set for such attitude as set forth in the office policies in force. Setting precautionary procedures to avoid labor breach is also considered.
We believe that conversations and meetings constitute an essential factor for high curing labor breaches, especially when maintaining healthy relations with the office employees.

As our office consists of multiple divisions with a central management for each; we relay in treating labor violations (if any) on the said division management before escalating that to the office higher management. While we adopt a unique breach-assessment instrument that requires the input of all employees might be involved/affected in such breach (not only the management), by that we ensure having a fair assessment involving more than one point of view.

Any rights' violation in any possible shape is denied and strictly being dealt with in a professional manner could be represented in exclusion from big assignments could be assigned to that employee or withholding a position upgrade, always considering direct conversations and meetings as a priority to resolve breaches.

The goal of protecting the environment is through the application of policies and items that serve this purpose, our office is keen on this aspect. We can define our goals for the need for wise consumption of natural resources that will be passed around generations around the world.

Having healthy environmental conditions is one of our office basic goals, while we endeavor to maintain that goal in each particular in our office starting from its furniture, having a prosperous garden and plants, using environmental-friendly technologies and aware the office employees with the basic attitudes to have and maintain a healthy environment in and out the office.
While office has secured certain allocations serving that purpose, meetings are commonly concluded discussing the environmental status of the office making solutions and suggestions to upgrade those.

Due to permanent changes in the climate, our office directs its staff to ensure strict measures to maintain environmental protection regulations. Moreover; our office holds periodic sessions and groups' conversations publishing instructions and guidance for having a better environmental condition. This is being continuously monitored and observed by the management; in addition to resourcing experts and professionals for their consultation and solutions with this regard.

Being an international office; Anti Corruption and Anti Bribery International practices represents an essential part of our policy doing business locally serving both local and international clients. The Anti-Corruption culture is being educated to our office staff on a daily basis whether in written, oral or in acts supporting related ethics.
Because of the spread of corruption throughout the world, our office and its staff are facing such problems and resolve by taking legal steps and measures to eliminate/reduce corruption contributing the reduction of such acts with no toleration at all

In any case that a corruption being observed by our office whether when dealing with its clients and/or suppliers; we normally escalate such observations to the personnel in charge within the governmental body where we located a corruption. Our office keeps its right track by directing all its employees not to resort to any fraudulent means, while we continuously aware our clients of such fact adopted in our office works. And we ensure that all amounts paid by our staff and those charged to our clients are being weel-verified and supported with receipts proving the payment of such amounts with clear calculations and explanation for the grounds requiring such payments.
In addition; our office annual accounts records are subject to audit by in-house accountant and Certified Accountant.

In these days when all the world is suffering from corruption on all levels and with the audit processes and measures being applied to our office activities and expenditures; we are very proud of our achievements in this area, which can be observed with our daily activities by confronting all types and shapes of corruption wherever existed.