Take action Donate

Business and human rights defenders: Challenges and good practices

Location: ,
Date:
The International Service for Human Rights, in partnership with the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Permanent Mission of Norway, invite you to an event on

Business and human rights defenders: Challenges and good practices

Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 14h30 to 16h00
Room XXI, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Add this event to your calendar
Panelists:
  • Alejandra Ancheita, Executive Director of ProDESC and winner of the 2014 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
  • Keith Harper, US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
  • Vanessa Harvard-Williams, Partner with Linklaters
  • Sheila Keetharuth, Expert member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations
Moderator:
  • Hina Jilani, Board member of ISHR and former UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders

This event will consider the role and responsibility of States, business and the UN to support and protect human rights defenders who work on issues of corporate accountability, together with the constructive role that human rights defenders can play in promoting corporate responsibility.

Please note that this event is being convened as part of the 2014 Forum on Business and Human Rights and that registration for that Forum is essential to gain entry to this event.