Supply Chain Due Diligence Training for Lawyers and Legal Counsel
Lawyers and Legal counsel are key to driving supply chain compliance and due diligence. The changing legal landscape introducing mandatory environmental and human rights due diligence is shifting lawyers need to understand disclosure and transparency requirements .
Read moreAnti-Slavery Webinar: The Corporate Response to modern slavery and how BS 27500 guidance can help, with input from a survivor
Register for this FREE webinar that explores the corporate response to the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015). Perspectives will be provided by companies, civil society, investors and legal representatives to address questions on the Act’s including its provision, scope, impact, governance and recommendations to strengthen its utility. Members of the panel have been involved in the development of the BS27500 guidance standard for organisations and will reflect on how the standard can strengthen the response to addressing modern slavery risk.
Read moreFREE WEBINAR: Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role and Process of Procurement
Register for this FREE webinar to learn about the role and process of procurement to support organisations to manage their human rights and environmental compliance risks and demonstrate how a responsible business approach delivers for all supply chain stakeholders. Learn from experts from civil society about the expectations and implications, from legal experts about the legislative requirements, and from commercial organisations about best practice in procurement.
Read moreFREE WEBINAR: The importance of ESG Corporate Governance to embed due diligence frameworks
Register for this FREE webinar to learn about corporate human rights and climate change governance to support organisations to manage their human rights and environmental risks. Learn from experts about legal expectations and implications, including best practice to implement good governance.
Read moreESG: Introductory Overview for Lawyers: Interactive Masterclass
This introduction to Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) masterclass will provide an insight to the opportunities that ESG presents to create new areas of business, boost reputation, and enhance transparency around sustainability.
Read moreFREE WEBINAR: Sectoral Spotlight on Sport: Human Rights Due Diligence
On the eve of the Commonwealth Games 2022, being hosted in Birmingham, U.K., 28 July to 8 August, register for this FREE webinar to learn about human rights due diligence in a sporting context. Learn from experts about the status of global due diligence legislation, voluntary frameworks such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO convention, and the SDGs, how to develop capacity building around human rights due diligence in your sport-focussed organisation, and examples of best practice in supporting human rights.
Read moreHuman Rights Due Diligence: Eliminating Child Labour Risks in the Cocoa/Chocolate Sector
Register for this FREE webinar to learn about the global standards on child labour, human rights due diligence legislation and frameworks pertaining to child labour, and where the corporate risks on child labour in the cocoa/chocolate sector lie for U.K. and multi-national companies in their global supply chains.
Read moreWEBINAR: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: Key Challenges Facing Companies
Register for this FREE webinar to learn about the existing and forthcoming mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD) legislation across Europe, and how it impacts your organisation. The session will be of particular interest to those working in sectors that the E.U. defines in its Proposal as being high risk to modern slavery e.g. #textiles, #agriculture, #extraction of minerals.
Read moreFREE Online Q&A: Conflict Minerals: A Due Diligence Approach
A practical online Q&A that discusses conflict minerals due diligence, utilising a combined legal and data solution approach. The session draws on a recent case study of a large tobacco conglomerate to illustrate the best practice application of responsible sourcing principles and how a beyond compliance approach delivers multiple stakeholder benefits.
Read moreBusiness and Human Rights – Responsible Recruitment Webinar
This free practical webinar that outlines human rights-based principles, such as the Dhaka Principles, that enhance respect for migrant workers, and explores how the “employer pays” principle addresses some of the issues that lead to debt bondage and other defined modern slavery malpractices.
Read moreBusiness and Human Rights – The Interconnection with Climate Change
This free webinar will discuss the unassailable human rights impacts being wrought by climate change, ranging from the direct effects on populations by rising sea levels and deforestation that lead to migration patterns, to more subtle but no less challenging impacts such as violations in labour rights, working conditions and practices.
Read moreBusiness and Human Rights – Geographical Focus: 15 September 2021
This practical webinar sets out the existing human rights legislation and global first principles frameworks e.g. UNGPs, ILO convention, Global Compact, and focuses on specific geographic
regions where human rights risks, responsibilities and the need for remediation are documented as being most acute.