For Development Organizations
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic businesses and workers across global supply chains have taken a devastating economic hit. Responsible purchasing practices are key to strengthen business relations, ensure business continuity and safeguard human rights across global value chains. This session aims to highlight the challenges producers face in ensuring business continuity, while meeting social and environmental standards in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role purchasing practices play and how a collaborative business approach can support growth and sustainability.
This conference will examine the current priorities for tackling modern slavery in the context of a range of recent developments - including the Government’s New Plan for Immigration, the Nationality and Borders Bill, and the overhaul of the asylum system - as well as the implications of these developments for addressing modern slavery and supporting victims.
Webinar for legal practitioners, scholars and the public to discuss pathways for a just recovery from the pandemic for garment workers.
A seminar from the Centre for Business Organisations and Society and the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights
Join for a conversation with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Corporate Accountability Lab, and Transparentem on social auditing reform and liability. For registration please see the link to the external website.
Leading Global Forum on Sustainability & Apparel Industry
A discussion of the campaign behind & implications of the precedent-setting passage of California’s SB62, The Garment Worker Protection Act.
In this panel, garment labor leaders and movement lawyers discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the crisis in the fashion industry: from increased wage theft, caste and gender-based violence to rising levels of informality.
The European Parliament Working Group on Responsible Business Conduct (RBC wg) is organising a public webinar to present and discuss the Sustainable Corporate Governance legislative proposal with a broad range of stakeholders.
Together we will explore the human & the more-than-human as social & ecological threads in repairing the fabric of an earth-centred future