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Business and Human Rights Accelerator 2024

February 1 @ 8:00 am - July 31 @ 5:00 pm

The idea of human rights is as simple as it is powerful: That all people have a right to be treated with dignity.

Businesses often impact the human rights of their employees and contract workers, workers in their supply chains, the communities around their operations and even the end users of their products or services. Whether directly or indirectly, they impact virtually the entire spectrum of internationally recognized human rights.

As a result, companies have both a responsibility and an opportunity to advance human rights across operations, supply chains and beyond. Is your company able to know and show that it supports and respects the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights, and that it is not complicit in human rights abuses?

The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating companies participating in the UN Global Compact across industries and regions. The objective is to help businesses swiftly move from commitment to action on human rights and labour rights through establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence process.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN


  • How to identify your responsibilities in respecting human rights and labour rights, expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
  • How to establish an ongoing human rights due diligence process in line with international standards
  • How to report and communicate on your human rights due diligence journey, including through the Communication on Progress, the annual public disclosure requirement for all UN Global Compact participants

 

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN


  • An understanding of where your company is on their human rights journey
  • An assessment of actual and potential adverse human rights impacts and the ability to prioritize action
  • The ability to mitigate your human rights impacts, including grievance mechanisms and remedy
  • Ways to engage stakeholders on business impacts
  • An action plan to advance human rights in your company and beyond
  • A network of peers, UN partners and experts to support your human rights journey and work collectively to tackle persistent barriers to human rights due diligence
  • A certificate demonstrating completion of programme

 

THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

 


Participants understand the Human Rights and Labour Principles of the UN Global Compact, UN Guiding Principles and the human rights due diligence process and determine where they are on their human rights journey.


Participants scope the company value chain and identify potential impacts.


Participants prioritize salient human rights impacts and understand their involvement with those impacts.


Participants start developing specific actions and related metrics.


Participants understand how to effectively engage affected stakeholders and communicate their impacts.


Participants understand remedy and grievance mechanisms.

 

Timeline


Applications Open:  6 September 2023

Application Deadline: 15 December 2023 Extended to 15 January 2024

Accelerator Begins: 1 February 2024

Contact 

For further details, please feel free to contact bhr.labor@indonesiagcn.org

 

In collaboration with:

INDONESIA GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK (IGCN)

Details

Start:
February 1 @ 8:00 am
End:
July 31 @ 5:00 pm
Event Categories:
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Website:
https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/business-and-human-rights

Venue

Virtual