2013 ENGAGING BUSINESS: IMPLEMENTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Thursday
9th MAY 2013
8:00 - 8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45
Welcome and Opening Comments from The Coca-Cola Company
Welcome and Opening Comments from the Coca-Cola Company
Ed Potter
Director, Global Workplace Rights
Meeting Overview and Objectives
Brent Wilton
Deputy Secretary General, International Organization of Employers (IOE)
8:45 - 10:00
Panel Discussion — Business and Human Rights Guiding Principles Best Practice
Moderator
Clifford Henry
Associate Director, Global Sustainability, Proctor & Gamble
IPIECA Business and Human Rights Task Force
Bert Fokkema
Sustainable Development manager–Human Rights, Shell
Implementing the Guiding Principles – The Experience to Date
Caroline Rees
President, Shift
Arvind Ganesan
Business and Human Rights Director, Human Rights Watch
David Schilling
Senior Program Director, Human Rights and Resources, ICCR
10:00 - 10:15
Panel Discussion — The Business Role in Eliminating Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
Moderator
Brent Wilton
Secretary-General, International Organization of Employers
The Dimensions of the Problem
Beate Andres
head of Forced Labor Branch, International Labor Organization
A Business Community Roadmap
Frances House
Director of Programs, Institute for Human Rights and Business
The Global Business Coalition Against Trafficking (gBCAT)
David Arkless
Founder and Chairman, ArkLight Consulting (TBC)
Trafficking Case Study–Labor Broker Agencies
Dan Viederman
Executive Director, Verite
10:15 - 11:30
Panel Discussion — The Business Role in Eliminating Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
Moderator
Brent Wilton
Secretary-General, International Organization of Employers
The Dimensions of the Problem
Beate Andres
head of Forced Labor Branch, International Labor Organization
A Business Community Roadmap
Frances House
Director of Programs, Institute for Human Rights and Business
The Global Business Coalition Against Trafficking (gBCAT)
David Arkless
Founder and Chairman, ArkLight Consulting (TBC)
Trafficking Case Study–Labor Broker Agencies
Dan Viederman
Executive Director, Verite
11:30 - 12:00
The UN Working Group View of Implementing the Business and Human Rights Guiding Principles
Moderator
James Plunkett
Senior Manager, Labor Law Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Speaker
Margaret Jungk
Member of UN Working Group on Human Rights and Business
12:00 - 12:40
LUNCH
12:40 - 1:00
Luncheon Speaker: The View from Myanmar
Moderator
Brent Wilton
ILO
Speaker
Steve Marshall
International Labor Organization Liaison Officer, Myanmar
1:00 - 2:15
Panel Discussion — Business Investment in Myanmar: How Much Due Diligence is Enough?
Moderator
Steve Marshall
ILO, (TBC)
Speaker
Salil Tripathi
Director of Policy, Institute for Human Rights and Business
Kathy Mulvey
Director, Conflict Risk Network
Mark Nordstrom
Senior Corporate Counsel, Labor and Employment Law, General Electric
Melike Yetkin
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State
2:15 - 2:30
BREAK
2:30 - 3:45
Addressing the Hard Supply Chain Issues
Moderator
Adam Greene
Labor Affairs & Corporate Responsibility, U.S. Council for International Business
Conflict Minerals
Zoe McMahon
Director, Social & Environmental Sustainability and Compliance, Hewlett-Packard
Traceability
Anna Walker
Director, Public Policy and Stakeholder Engagement, Levi Strauss & Co.
Human Rights and Purchasing
Marcela Manubens
Global Vice President for Social Impact, Unilever
Human Rights and Mapping the Supply Chain
Stuart Kyle
Director, Workplace Accountability, The Coca-Cola Company
3:45 - 5:00
Panel Discussion — Supply Chain Human Right Due Diligence Tools and Best Practice
Moderator
Ronnie Goldberg
Senior Counsel, U.S. Council for International Business
Supply Chain Tools
Conan Shearer
e-Business Manager, ExxonMobil
Supply Chain Tools
Jorge Perez-Lopez
Executive Director, Fair Labor Association
Chris Jochnick
Director of the Private Sector Department, Oxfam
Bennett Freeman
Senior vice President, Sustainability Research and Policy, Calvert Investments
5:00 - 5:30
Next Steps and Closing Comments
Speakers
Brent Wilton
IOE
Ronnie Goldberg
USCIB
James Plunkett
U.S. Chamber
Ed Potter
TCCC