AGENDA

Explore the line-up of sessions for the United Nations Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum.

Note: Session information is subject to change. Please explore the schedule below for the latest updates.

09:00 - 10:30 ICT

The Remedy Blueprint: Bridging gaps and accelerating access

Opening Plenary

11:00 - 12:00 ICT

Access to Remedy in the Energy Transition Sector: Regional scan of the ‘Right’ pathway to the Just Transition

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

11:00 - 12:00 ICT

Effective Remediation and Sustained Compliance in the World of Work

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | International Labour Organization

12:30 - 13:00 ICT

SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Bhopal’s Unfinished Business: 40 years of struggle for accountability

In conversation with lawyer and activist Indira Jaising

13:00-14:00 ICT

Strategic Pressure Points: Complementary pathways to justice

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Development Programme

13:00-14:00 ICT

Children's Rights and Business Accountability: Access to remedy demystified

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UNICEF

14:00 - 14:30 ICT

SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Remedy across Mandates

A conversation with UN Special Procedures

15:00 - 16:00 ICT

Justice in a Mobile World: Removing barriers to remedy for migrant workers

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | International Organization for Migration

15:00 - 16:00 ICT

Enhancing Access to Remedy for Indigenous Migrant Workers in Asia

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

16:30 - 17:30 ICT

Legal Remedies: An evolving landscape

Session partners: D Sy Law, Norton Rose Fulbright

16:30 - 17:30 ICT

Bridging Commerce and Rights Advocacy: What business associations bring to rights advocacy

Session partners: APAC GATES, Responsible Business Hub EuroCham Cambodia, BSR, Labor Solutions, Digital Governance Asia

16:30 - 17:30 ICT

Direct Worker Voice: Real data to catalyse remedy

Session partner: HP, Bluenumber, Be Slavery Free

16:30 - 17:30 ICT

Migration Consultation

Session partner: UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

16:30 - 18:00 ICT

Participation in Development: Consultation for a report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development (in person only)

Session partner: UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development

09:00 - 10:00 ICT

Addressing Modern Slavery and Achieving Worker Remedy through Worker Voice: What have we learnt?

Session partners: New South Wales Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Issara Institute, Labour Rights Foundation and the Australian Human Rights Institute

09:00 - 10:00 ICT

Bridging Rights and Responsibilities: Tackling plastic pollution together with the informal sector

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Environment Programme

10:30 - 11:30 ICT

Access to Remedy across Borders: National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct

Session partner: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Australian National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct, Korean National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct, TUK Indonesia

10:30 - 11:30 ICT

Safe Workplaces. Better Business. Thriving Societies: Addressing sexual harassment and violence against women in the world of work

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Women

11:45 - 12:15 ICT

SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Navigating Remedy in Conflict Contexts

In conversation with Vicky Bowman, Director of Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business

11:45 - 12:15 ICT

SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Critical Metrics: Leveraging benchmarking to advance access to remedy

In conversation with Namit Agrawal, Social Innovation Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance

13:00-14:00 ICT

From Compliance to Influence: Redefining Asia-Pacific’s engagement with mandatory due diligence

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Development Programme

13:00-14:00 ICT

A Safe and Healthy Working Environment: How to get there?

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | International Labour Organization

14:30 - 15:30 ICT

Roadmap to Remedy for Sport and Human Rights: Applying the UNGPs to sport in Asia-Pacific

Session partner: Centre for Sport and Human Rights

14:30 - 15:30 ICT

Human Rights and Tech: Community Assessment of the Rights' Impacts in the Tech Industry (CLARITI)

Session partner: ARTICLE 19, Ranking Digital Rights, Human Rights in China, Legal Initiatives for Vietnam

15:00 - 17:00 ICT

Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: Dialogue with Stakeholders in Asia (in person only)

Session partners: Institute of Developing Economies - JETRO, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Development Programme, International Labour Organization, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, JETRO Bangkok

16:00 - 17:00 ICT

A Transition also "Just" for children? Risks and opportunities

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UNICEF

16:00 - 17:00 ICT

Unearthing Injustices: Towards remedy, grievance mechanisms and shared prosperity models

Session partners: Fair Finance Asia and Business and Human Rights Research Centre

16:00 - 17:00 ICT

Welcoming the Global Digital Compact: The right to development, technology, and corporate accountability in Asia and the Pacific

Session partners: World Benchmarking Alliance, AICHR Malaysia, Wikimedia Foundation, and Collective of Applied Law & Legal Realism

16:00 - 17:30 ICT

OECD Consultation: Training and Capacity Building Needs on Supply Chain Due Diligence (in person only)

Session partners: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

09:00 - 10:00 ICT

Building a Path to Effective Remedy in the Financial Sector

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Environment Programme

09:00 - 10:00 ICT

Use of Digital Technology in Access to Justice Across Borders

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | International Organization for Migration

10:30 - 11:30 ICT

'We Wanted Workers but Human Beings Came': Reforming temporary labour migration to make remedy a reality

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

10:30 - 11:30 ICT

From the Ground Up: Media as a Catalyst to Accelerate Remedy

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Development Programme

11:45 - 12:15 ICT

SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Bottom-Up Perspective on Remedy

A conversation with civil society

11:45 - 12:15 ICT

SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Remedy and NAPs: Paper into practice

In conversation with Timotheus Felder-Roussety, Social Counsellor bei Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office), Germany

13:00-14:00 ICT

From Silence to Solutions: Elevating worker voices and increasing supply chain transparency in the electronics and garment sector in Asia

Session partners: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and SOMO Center for Research on Multinational Corporations

13:00-14:00 ICT

Righting Wrongs: Exploring pathways to community-led remedies for human rights and environmental rights violations (in person only)

Session partner: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and Accountability Counsel

13:00-14:00 ICT

Promoting Responsible Business Practices through Effective Remediation

Session partner: FIHRRST

13:00-14:00 ICT

Launch of Human Rights Working Group APAC Chapter (in person only)

Session partners: BSR

14:30 - 15:30 ICT

Advancing Remedy and Responsible Business through Development Finance and Co-operation

UNRBHR Forum co-organizer session | UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

14:30 - 15:30 ICT

Effective Access to Remedy in Practice: Lessons learnt from operating a grievance mechanism

Session partner: Fair Wear, Japan Center for Engagement and Remedy on Business and Human Rights, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Global Compact Network Japan

16:00 - 17:00 ICT

The Remedy Blueprint: Bridging gaps and accelerating access

Closing plenary

All Day | 23 September

TRAINING | Business and Human Rights: Strategies for human rights defenders to challenge, confront, and cooperate with business (in person only)

Session partners: Institute for Human Rights and Business, Rafto Foundation and UN Development Programme

All Day | 23 September

Global North Dominance Watch Workshop on Democratising Knowledge Spaces Related to Corporate Accountability PART 1

Session partners: Southern Voices for Global Development and Partners in Change

13:30-16:30 | 23 September

Supplier Capacity Building Workshop on
Forced Labor (in person only)

Session partners: BSR and USAID

All Day | 24 September

AICHR-SEANF Regional Workshop: Sharing good practices and effective remedy for migrant workers in business and human rights in ASEAN (in person only)

Session partners: ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, South East Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Mission of Japan to ASEAN, UN Development Programme

09:00 - 10:00 ICT | 24 September

Worker Grievance Mechanisms and Access to Remedy in Asia: Lessons from selected supply chains

Session partners: LRQA, North South Institute, and Change Alliance

09:00 - 10:00 ICT | 24 September

Thematic priorities for the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights: Consultation with governments (in person only)

Session partners: UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights and Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

09:00 - 10:00 ICT | 24 September

Asserting Remedies, Justice and Corporate Accountability: Grounds for local, national, cross-border and transnational organizing (in person only)

Session partners: EarthRights International, International Rivers, Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy, Community Resource Centre - Thailand, ETO Watch Coalition - Thailand, 3S Rivers Protection Network, Mekong Watch, Dibang Resistance, International Accountability Project, International Commission of Jurists, Just Ground and Defenders in Development Campaign

09:00 - 10:00 ICT | 24 September

Workplace Dialogue and Employee Involvement: A tool for effective remedy

Session partner: International Council of Swedish Industry, Swedish Industrial and Metal Workers’ Union - IF Metall, Swedish Workplace Programme

09:00 - 12:00 ICT | 24 September

Business Caucus on Human Rights and Responsible Business Conduct (in person only)

Session partner: International Organisation of Employers

10:30 - 12:00 ICT | 24 September

Remedying the Harm: Indigenous Peoples' perspectives on access to remedies and justice

Session partners: Coalition for Human Rights in Development; Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact; Zero Tolerance Initiative, Right Energy Partnership for Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Peoples Rights International; Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy, Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Defenders Network, Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples

10:30 - 12:00 ICT | 24 September

Unpacking Remedy: A Practical Workshop for Business Practitioners (in person only)

Session partner: BSR

10:30 - 12:00 ICT | 24 September

Experience Sharing and Peer Exchange on the Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (in person only)

Session partner: UN Development Programme

10:30 - 12:00 ICT | Sept 24

VOICES of Waste Pickers: Responsible business in the plastics recycling supply chain in practice

Session partner: The Circulate Initiative

10:30 - 12:00 ICT | Sept 24

Teaching Access to Remedy: Role of pedagogies and partnerships

Session partner: Teaching BHR Forum

12:30 - 14:00 ICT | 24 September

Business Sector Engagement Strategy for Asia: Consultations with the Business Sector (in person only)

Session partner: UN Development Programme and Pillar Two

12:30 - 14:00 ICT | 24 September

Civil Society Dialogue with the Working Group on Business and Human Rights (in person only)

Session partner: UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

13:00 - 14:00 ICT | 24 September

From Cradle to Cradle: Just transition from production, supply chains, to end of life management and for a zero waste future and circular economy

Session partner: International Alliance of Waste Pickers, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives - Asia Pacific, Philippine National Waste Workers Alliance, Thyajya Shramika Sangha, Homenet International

13:00 - 14:00 ICT | 24 September

Workplace Sexual Harassment: The role of businesses in furthering feminist justice

Session partner: One Future Collective

13:00 - 14:00 ICT | 24 September

Workshop on Survivor-Centered Remediation: Developing remedies at the initial reporting and complaints stage