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GBSN for Business and Human Rights Impact Community 6th Annual Meeting

The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the Alliance Business School at the University of Manchester, the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva, PRME and GBSN invite you to participate in the 6th annual meeting focused on the advancement of human rights research and teaching at business schools.

The meeting will take place in-person in Geneva, Switzerland and online, Friday, 2 December. We hope to talk about new initiatives and issues pertaining to business and human rights and discuss updates, activities, and collective action within the research clusters. 

For those in need of immediate assistance, please contact Pascale Chavaz at +41. 078.649.7272.

Agenda

Uni-Mail, 40 Boulevard du Pont d’Arve, Genève, Room M 3250

12.00 – 13.00 – Light lunch and networking
13.00 – 13.05 – Opening of the meeting
Michael Posner, Director, NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights & Dorothée
Baumann-Pauly, Director, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights

13.05 – 13.15 – Video: why should labour rights be mainstreamed into business education?
Testimonies from various stakeholders

13.15 – 13.20 – ILO-UNIGE-GBSN partnership: presentation of the MoU
Manuela Tomei, Assistant Director-General on Governance, Rights and Dialogue, ILO
Stéphane Berthet, Vice-rector, UNIGE
Dan LeClair, CEO, GBSN

13.20 – 13.30 – First Technical workshop, with lecturers on forced labour in fishing: illustrating
the work of the Global Supply Chains & Modern Slavery research cluster in collaboration with
ILO
Charles Autheman, Lead of the cluster
Alix Nasri, Accelerator Lab 8.7 Programme Coordinator, ILO


13.30 – 14.15 – Updates from all other research clusters 

14.15 – 14.25 – Mainstreaming sustainable business with human rights in business school
education
Nicholas Igneri, Global chief product officer, AACSB


14.25 – 14.50 – Discussion and planning of future work: what does it take to grow the network
and advance mainstreaming BHR in business education?


14.50 – 14.55 – Closing remarks
Yves Flückiger, Rector, UNIGE


14.55 – 15.00 – Closing
Michael Posner, Director, NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights & Dorothée
Baumann-Pauly, Director, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights

*This schedule is tentative and is subject to change.

Interested in joining the GBSN for BHR Impact Community?

Individuals interested in joining the Global Business School Network for Business and Human Rights should complete the online sign-up form below. To attend the 5th Annual Meeting, please sign up for the Impact community.