Biggest global gathering on business, HR in Geneva Nov 16-18

The fourth annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, the biggest global gathering on business and human rights, will be held in Geneva from November 16-18, reports UNB.
Some 2,000 participants from governments, business, the investment community, grassroots and international non-governmental organisations and academia, including Bangladesh, will get together at the event to be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
They will be there to find ways to prevent and address human rights abuses in the economic sphere, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, according to a message received from Geneva yesterday.
The forum will focus on strengthening multi-stakeholder dialogue and engagement, discussing effective ways to measure and report on progress to implement the guiding principles, discussing national action plans to implement the guiding principles, exploring access to effective remedy, examining current practice of States and business enterprises and ‘unpacking’ what implementation of the guiding principles means in concrete areas.
Some other highlights of the issues to be discussed include identifying solutions to key human rights challenges associated with Mega Sporting Events with FIFA, Coca-Cola and the Rio Olympic Committee, leadership views on business and human rights securing rights online, access to remedy with specific sessions on the financial sector and most severe abuses, implementing forced labour rules, challenges faced by human rights defenders, beyond auditing in garment supply chain with H&M and Fair Wear Foundation and Sustainable Development Goals.
Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) Kalpona Akter will speak in one of the sessions.

Biggest global gathering on business, HR in Geneva Nov 16-18

The fourth annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, the biggest global gathering on business and human rights, will be held in Geneva from November 16-18, reports UNB. Some 2,000 participants from governments, business, the investment community, grassroots and international non-governmental organisations and academia, including Bangladesh, will get together at the event to be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. They will be there to find ways to prevent and address human rights abuses in the economic sphere, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, according to a message received from Geneva yesterday. The forum will focus on strengthening multi-stakeholder dialogue and engagement, discussing effective ways to measure and report on progress to implement the guiding principles, discussing national action plans to implement the guiding principles, exploring access to effective remedy, examining current practice of States and business enterprises and unpacking what implementation of the guiding principles means in concrete areas. Some other highlights of the issues to be discussed include identifying solutions to key human rights challenges associated with Mega Sporting Events with FIFA, Coca-Cola and the Rio Olympic Committee, leadership views on business and human rights securing rights online, access to remedy with specific sessions on the financial sector and most severe abuses, implementing forced labour rules, challenges faced by human rights defenders, beyond auditing in garment supply chain with HM and Fair Wear Foundation and Sustainable Development Goals. Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) Kalpona Akter will speak in one of the sessions.