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Our free online event will focus on the new wave of regulation seeking to end corporate impunity, while also empowering communities and workers in global supply chains. Our panel will explore the importance of rigorous corporate accountability and human rights due diligence legislation and the need for business and investor leadership to promote human rights-centred operation and investment.
Our panel of speakers will bring their expert perspective on emerging human rights regulation. The event will feature representatives from government, business and worker voices.
Through their rich analysis, our speakers will demonstrate that corporate human rights due diligence – growing in stature internationally – is a crucial opportunity to empower and protect marginalised communities and workers.
Host - Mary Robinson We are delighted to be joined once again by Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Chair of The Elders) who will host our discussion.
Thursday 14 September 2023, São Paulo 10:00 / London 14:00 / 18:30 New Delhi / 22:00 Tokyo
Click here to register for this year's BHRRC Mary Robinson Speaker Series - Raising the bar: Regulating corporate abuse.
The webinar will explore the new wave of regulation which seeks to end corporate impunity, while empowering communities and workers in global supply chains. Our panel of speakers will explore the importance of rigorous corporate accountability and human rights due diligence legislation and the need for business and investor leadership to promote human rights-centred operation and investment.
Keynote speaker
Kalpona Akter is an internationally recognised labour rights advocate who has campaigned for fair wages, safe workplaces, freedom of association and collective bargaining rights. She is the executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, one of Bangladesh’s key labour rights advocacy organisations. Kaplona is a former child garment worker who became union president in her shop floor at the age of 16 and was blacklisted in the industry for fostering advocacy. Kaplona is President of Bangladesh Garment & Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF) - a major national trade union centre.
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