5th session

Name: 5th session
Start: 2016-11-14T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-11-16T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Palais des Nations

14 Nov 2016, 08:00 → 16 Nov 2016, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

In-Person

Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Palais des Nations

Geneva, Switzerland

Monday 14 November
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- Benchmarking: leveraging transparency to drive business respect for human rights in supply chains
- Introduction to the world of finance & human rights
- Plenary I: Embedding human rights in the private sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Banks & the UNGPs: implementation case studies and dilemmas
- Capital supply chain: engaging investors on human rights
- Decent work in global supply chains: the way forward after the 2016 International Labour Conference
- Embedding gender in the business and human rights agenda
- Embedding human rights in corporate tax regimes
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- Banks: human rights due diligence and public reporting
- Combating discrimination against persons with disabilities in the workplace and value chain
- Re-imagining supply chain initiatives to drive impact
- Tackling human trafficking through business and government partnerships under the Bali Process
- ACT initiative: how brands, manufacturers & trade unions are working together for a living wage in garment supply chains
- Addressing discrimination against LGBTI persons
- Integrating human rights in international investment agreements
- Lessons from the field when implementing human rights impact assessments
- The responsibility and influence of institutional investors
- Implementing the UN Guiding Principles in times of major political, economic or social change: focus on investment
- Labour migration in supply chains – combating forced labour and human trafficking
- Leveraging the money: engaging investors, lenders and buyers to ensure effective remedy for communities
- Understanding the role of insurance companies vis-à-vis human rights
- Unpacking the case for the living wage in law, practice and commerce
- Book launch: Business and Human Rights – reflections from Latin America
- Indigenous peoples rights and the SDGs
- “The True Cost” – documentary screening
Tuesday 15 November
- Global Compact HRLWG
- PM of the USA - Meeting on 5th session
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- Boardroom case study: the board considers human rights challenges in a transnational commercial venture
- Mega sporting events and human rights
- Responsible raw materials sourcing
- State-owned Enterprises and the Governments that control them
- Unlocking new streams of funding for business and human rights
- Private Meeting with the President of Switzerland
- Plenary II - Leadership perspectives: Embedding human rights in the rules and relationships that drive the global economy
- Business leadership on human rights in areas affected by conflict
- Embedding human rights within a company: strategies, challenges and successes
- How accountants can assure respect for human rights and be enablers for change
- Using the “business case” for companies to respect human rights to drive change
- Direct linkage and leverage: practical experiences and lessons for the future
- PM of the USA - Meeting on 5th session
- Practical leverage of law
- Public financial institutions and HR
- State regulatory approaches - the practice in emerging markets
- Using leverage to forge leadership: indigenous peoples’ rights in business operations
- Access to remedy: victims’ perspectives in cross-border cases
- Corruption: the business of violating human rights
- Ending business relationships: exploring disengagement in human rights due diligence
- Eradicating worker-paid recruitment
- How lawyers can help companies to better identify and respond to human rights issues
- Update on the International Arbitration Tribunal (Initiative for an International Arbitration Tribunal on BHR)
Wednesday 16 November
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- Challenges and opportunities of operational-level grievance mechanisms
- Government procurement: emerging practice in the apparel and electronics sectors
- New models for access to State-based non-judicial remedy
- Responsible land-based inviestments
- Securing respect for human rights in the global transition to renewable energy
- Access to remedy: implementing OHCHR’s recommendations to address barriers to judicial remedy
- How many more killings & threats? Solutions to protect human rights defenders working on extractives in Latin America
- Leadership & leverage across the supply chain: perspective of suppliers, retailers and unions
- Public procurement, human rights and sustainable development: the need for policy coherence
- The role of local industry associations to drive respect for human rights
- How companies can advocate for the protection of human rights defenders and broader fundamental freedoms
- National action plans to implement the UNGPs
- Practices in perishable supply chains
- Practicing responsible business in occupied territories: the role of companies & investors
- Soda giants, land & good practice: lessons from a land conflict in Brazil
- Swisspeace & PM Switzerland
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- Human rights & model clauses between Government security forces and companies
- Lessons in implementing the corporate responsibility to respect around the world
- Redefining leadership: embedding human rights in management education
- Update on the treaty process
- Advancing national action plans: “Global South” civil society perspectives
- Leadership, leverage and the special challenges of Big Data
- Making consultations with indigenous peoples work
- State regulatory approaches - human rights due diligence and reporting trends
- Supporting SMEs to meet their responsibility to respect human rights
- Plenary III: Summing up and looking ahead to 2017 and beyond