“Business and human rights – towards a decade of global implementation”

Welcome

Welcome by Anita Ramasastry, Chairperson, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Niels Annen, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Opening

• Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice
• John Ruggie, former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights; Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Remarks by UN Project Partners

• Peggy Hicks, Director, Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

• Mourad Wahba, Associate Administrator a.i., UNDP

Government perspectives

• Jens Frølich Holte, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
• Silvia Lara Povedano, Vice Minister of the Presidency, Costa Rica
• Krystyna Marty, State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
• Stefano Sannino, Deputy Secretary General for Economic and Global Issues, European External Action Service

Introducing the UNGPs10+/NextdecadeBHR project

Conversation with UN Working Group Chair Anita Ramasastry and Vice-chair Dante Pesce
Conducted by Christopher Schuller, independent business and human rights expert

Reflections on UNGPs10+ and reinforcing coherence

Moderator: Lene Wendland, Chief, Business and Human Rights, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

• Sharan Burrow, Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation
• Mthunzi Mdwaba, Vice-President, International Organisation of Employers
• Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact
• Christine Kaufmann, Chairperson, Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct, OECD
• Josep Wilde-Ramsing, Senior Researcher, SOMO; Coordinator OECD Watch
• Victor van Vuuren, Director, Enterprises Department, ILO
  

Break

Conversation with UN Working Group Chair Anita Ramasastry and Vice-chair Dante Pesce
Conducted by Christopher Schuller, Former Senior Policy Advisor at German Institute for Human Rights

Perspectives and expectations from the ground

Moderator: Mauricio Lazala, Deputy Director & Head of Europe Office, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• Joan Carling, Co-convenor of the Indigenous Peoples Major Group for Sustainable Development
• Nnimmo Bassey, Defender of victims of climate change, Nigerian activist and poet

The road ahead: how to scale action to move business respect for human rights from aspiration to action?

Moderator: Salil Tripathi, Senior Advisor, Global Issues, Institute for Human Rights and Business

• Heidi Hautala, Member of the European Parliament
• Fiona Reynolds, CEO, Principles for Responsible Investment
• Jeanette von Wolfersdorff, Director of Commission for Transparency, Quality and the Impact of Public Expenditure, Chile; former Director of the Santiago Securities Exchange
• Liang Xiaohui, Chief Researcher at the China National Textile and Apparel Council
• Fernanda Hopenhaym, Co-executive director, PODER (Latin America); Chair of the board, ESCR-Net
• Ron Popper, CEO, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights

Answers, take-aways and next steps

Virtual Q&A with the Working Group Chair and Vice-chair

Closing remarks by the co-host

• Bärbel Kofler, Commissioner for Human Rights Policy of the German Federal Government