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The Engaging Business Forum brings together eminent personalities from across businesses, civil society, and government to drive meaningful conversations around human rights in business.
The Engaging Business Forum brings together eminent personalities from across businesses, civil society, and government to drive meaningful conversations around human rights in business.
Shipping, trucking, and air freight are critical to all global value chains. But the human rights risks in logistics are among the least visible and explored for most companies. This panel will examine the most salient logistics-related human rights risks and practical ways for companies to identify and address them. Human Rights of Logistics
Stakeholders and regulators expect increasingly rigorous and responsive human rights due diligence focused on workers and communities in the sub-tier supply chain. This panel will discuss the practical challenges (and potential solutions) for global companies planning and executing sub-tier human rights due diligence, including hurdles related to (i) visibility, (ii) leverage, and (iii) prioritization.Charting the Unseen: Sub-tier HRDD
The circular economy is a key driver of corporate sustainability ambitions and programs. While often seen as environmental initiatives, circularity programs can have salient impacts on workers and communities in different parts of the value chain—from those affected by shifting supply chains to informal waste workers involved in recycling and reuse. This panel will explore human rights risks for workers and communities affected by circularity strategies and how companies can address them. Circularity & Human Rights
Heightened human rights due diligence (hHRDD) is critical to respect human rights in conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts. This panel will discuss the meaning of hHRDD; specific elements of hHRDD; how the process differs to traditional human rights due diligence approaches; and the practical implications for businesses seeking to integrate conflict-related issues into their policies and programs.What’s Heightened about hHRDD?
Corporate human rights law is fundamentally reshaping enterprise-level risk prioritization. The CS3D tracks the Guiding Principles to focus on salience. The CSRD elevates double materiality. Still other laws and fiduciary duty privilege materiality. This panel will consider how these different regimes interact and how companies can practically navigate the overlapping imperatives.Risk Prioritization in the Age of CS3D
Companies are increasingly required by stakeholders to identify and address both their human rights and environmental risks. This discussion will focus on how businesses should consider, weigh, and address human rights risks and environmental risks, such as climate change, especially in situations where the two may conflict.Environment and Human Rights: Allies or Frenemies?
The CS3D not only redefines the landscape of corporate responsibility within the European Union, it also has far-reaching implications for global companies outside Europe. This discussion will highlight the similarities and differences between the CS3D and the UNGPs, as well as the future of the UNGPs, given the hardening and deepening obligations for companies mandated by the CS3D.CS3D & UNGPs: Only Room for One Now?
Respect for human rights is an expectation of large and small businesses alike, but SMEs may face differing challenges in developing and executing their human rights strategy. This discussion will focus on those challenges, e.g., those relating to resources, capacity and leverage, and explore potential solutions and points of collaboration for SMEs.SME Perspective on Human Rights Challenges
Effective corporate human rights due diligence is expected to be expansive—covering all rights and all stakeholders across the whole value chain; dynamic—providing ongoing, real-time insight; and integrated—woven into enterprise risk management. This panel will explore the value of audits and certifications in meeting these expectations, as well as practical steps the industry can take to ensure they are fit for purpose.Future of Audits and Certifications