Webinar – Human rights and business. How are they linked?
Speakers:
Ms. Shubha Sekhar and Ms. Harpreet Kaur as they talk about Human Rights in Business context. Ms. Shubha is Regional Director-Human & Workplace Rights, Eurasia & North Africa, at The Coca-cola Company.
Ms. Harpreet is Business & Human Right Specialist at UNDP (Asia and the Pacific)
Moderator:
Manas R. Mohanty, Dy. Director, OCS
Webinar Details –
Date – 16th June , 4 pm
Webinar Outline: Ø General Intro to ‘Human Rights’.
Few Illustrations of Violation of Human Rights: World War, Holocaust etc.
Organizations involved or System in place to Safeguard Human Rights both globally and locally.
Ø Human Rights in Business: General Introduction/Context
Ø A brief about the mechanism in place to protect Human Rights by your respective organizations and the role you play in it.
Ø Elaboration on: Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework”.
Ø Violation of Human Rights by Business organization. viz: Gas Tragedy in Bhopal/ Chernobyl. Recent example of Vizag gas tragedy
Ø Role of Civil Societies / State or other organization.
Ø Lawsuits & complaints mechanisms. CSR activities of business organizations. Human rights policy & implementation by companies
Ø Conclusion. The Road ahead and Q&A session
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