The 2015 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights takes place in Geneva from 16 to 18 November. IHRB is co-organising, moderating or speaking at a number of sessions.

The 2015 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights takes place in Geneva from 16 to 18 November. IHRB is co-organising, moderating or speaking at a number of sessions. You can follow our discussions during the Forum on Twitter and Facebook, and watch many of the sessions live streamed.
 

Room XX Multi-stakeholder action across “Protect, Respect and Remedy” – Addressing specific impacts
Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business, which IHRB co-founded with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, will be speaking about multi-stakeholder engagement in Myanmar’s Thilawa Special Economic Zone. Watch live.
Room XXI Working together to promote due diligence and protect workers’ rights during recruitment
IHRB’s John Morrison will moderate this panel discussing the main standards, approaches and trends to regulating labour recruitment and the obstacles to effective due diligence by companies.
 
Room XXI Launch of Business and Human Rights Journal
This event will discuss the role of research and scholarship in promoting business respect for human rights. IHRB’s Salil Tripathi and Motoko Aizawa co-authored an article on the Rana Plaza factory collapse for the inaugural edition.

 
15:00-16:20 Room XXIII Measuring and tracking businesses' implementation of the Guiding Principles
IHRB’s Margaret Wachenfeld will be speaking on behalf of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark initiative and discussing methodological, operational and strategic questions related to measuring respect for human rights. Watch live. 
 
16:40-18:00 Room XX Identifying solutions to key human rights challenges associated with Mega Sporting Events (MSEs)
IHRB’s John Morrison will moderate this session on the human rights challenges confronting sports governing bodies, host governments and delivery bodies, as well as the sponsors, broadcasters, commercial partners and athletes that put on these events. Watch live.
10:00-11:20 Room XX Addressing the challenges that Human Rights Defenders face in the context of business activities in an age of a shrinking civil society space
IHRB’s Salil Tripathi will moderate this panel on the critical role of human rights defenders in ensuring accountability for corporate involvement in human rights abuses. Watch live.

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10:00-11.30 Room XII Business relationships learning dialogue: Implementing the corporate responsibility to respect human rights beyond supply chain
IHRB’s Haley St. Dennis will be speaking on this panel focused on implementing thecorporate responsibility to respect human rights in diverse business relationships, with a particular focus on issues of leverage, contracting and remedy.
11:40-13:00 Room XX Open for Business: The new role of the private sector in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
IHRB’s Margaret Wachenfeld will be speaking on this panel, highlighting recommendations from IHRB’s latest report: “State of Play: Business and the SDGs – Mind the Gap, Challenges for Implementation”. Watch live.