Report Launch: Impacts of Human Rights Due Diligence Laws on Internal Corporate Practice

Event Details

Legislation imposing mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD) are multiplying. While these laws are all based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), they use different legislative models - including some provisions which limit or contradict UNGPs expectations. In this way, each legal model necessitates slightly different corporate practices. Although these laws are new, companies and their legal advisers are already taking steps towards implementation and anticipate changes resulting from the transposition of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

After a 12-month research, at this event BIICL team will launch a report on the impacts of mHREDD regulation on corporate practice, present key findings and recommendation to inform the design and implementation of more effective mHREDD laws and hear reflections from key stakeholders.

Chair

Dr Irene Pietropaoli, Senior Fellow in Business and Human Rights, BIICL

Speakers

• Lise Smit, Business and Human Rights Adviser, Norton Rose Fulbright
• Dr Sofia Gonzalez de Aguinaga, Research Leader in Business, ESG, and Modern Slavery, BIICL
• Dr Jasmine Elliott, Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights, BIICL
• Ben Vanpeperstraete, Senior Legal Adviser, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
  

Registration

This is a hybrid event being held in person at the BIICL office in Russell Square, London and virtually. The event is free of charge to attend.

This is a closed event, by invitation only. If you wish to attend, please contact Jasmine Elliott.