Event Recording can be found here !
28th February 2023, 12:00-14:00 at Press Club Europe
Organisers: RBC wg in cooperation with ECCJ and BHRRC
This event will gather multiple stakeholders to address the following pressing questions from different perspectives: what makes effective human rights and environmental due diligence? What is needed to provide real change for workers in EU value chains?
The discussion will pave the way to a debate on how this historic opportunity could serve to effectively ensure justice for victims, departing from the actual experiences of workers, as well as business representatives.
The first-hand testimonies will be canvassed to clearly illustrate some key required elements for the European Union’s planned Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
Programme:
(This programme includes confirmed speakers)
12:00 – 12:05 Welcome from MEP Heidi Hautala
12:05 – 12:35 The Chain
- Natalie Swan (Business Human Rights Resource Centre)
- Zoya Surana (Partners in Change, Delhi)
- Maria Pia Bianchetti (UNICEF)
12:35 – 13:10 The Duty
- Joseph Wilde-Rausing (SOMO Centre for Research into Multinationals & OECD-Watch)
- Sar Mora (Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions)
- Lisa Nathan (UNI Global Union)
13:10 – 13:25 Lunch
13:25 – 13:55 Access to Justice
- Anosha Wahidi (Head of Unit, Sustainable Transformation of Global Supply Chains, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)
- Professor Robert McCorquodale (UN Working Group on Business & Human Rights)
- Ana Leyva (CooperAcción, Perù)
13:55 – 14:00 Thanks and final comments from MEP Heidi Hautala
*Lunch provided
