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Businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and act with due diligence throughout their global operations, according to the United Nations. But is the current regulatory framework being reformed to ensure they do? And are states playing their part to move towards a ethical economic globalization?
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law will host a seminar with three experts to discuss human rights due diligence and corporate accountability on October 23, 2015.
“A day doesn’t go by when you don’t hear of one company or another failing to respect human rights,” says Radu Mares, Senior Researcher at the Institute. “So it’s only natural to ask whether states have followed through with what they unanimously endorsed in 2011 – the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – or whether they have grown complacent, as many observers indicate.”
Mares will be joined by Dr. Claire Methven O’Brien from the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Professor Kernaghan Webb from the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Canada.
The director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute Morten Kjaerum will moderate the event, titled “Human Rights Due Diligence And Corporate Accountability – Peeking Into The Regulatory Toolbox.”
Recent regulatory and policy developments invite reflection on various ways of pursuing corporate accountability. The seminar will look into what new regulations are appearing. What are their ambiguities and limitations? How effective are standards and other policy instruments in driving change in the global market place?
The event is being held in cooperation with the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund.
Date and time: Friday 23 October, 15:00
Venue: Pufendorf Auditorium Tryckeriet, Lilla gråbrödersgatan 4, Lund
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