Posted
November 2016
How can your company demonstrate that it respects human rights? What is expected of a company’s human rights reporting? Various new reporting initiatives indicate that GRI is a good start but not enough. Reporting requirements such as the UK Modern Slavery Act require specific reporting on specific human rights issues, and new legislative reporting requirements can be expected during the coming years.
Join us for this training on human rights reporting! We will share latest trends, share good practice and let you dig into practical exercises.
How can your company demonstrate that it respects human rights? What is expected of a company’s human rights reporting? Various new reporting initiatives indicate that GRI is a good start but not enough. Reporting requirements such as the UK Modern Slavery Act require specific reporting on specific human rights issues, and new legislative reporting requirements can be expected during the coming years.
Join us for this training on human rights reporting! We will share latest trends, share good practice and let you dig into practical exercises.
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were endorsed in 2011 and constitutes the global standard of expected business conduct with regards to human rights. They establish that all companies have a responsibility to respect human rights. And that companies have to demonstrate how they know that they respect human rights – in effect a requirement to “know and show”.
Two current trends urge companies to be ahead of the developments in this field. One is the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, a voluntary initiative that is becoming the way to report on human rights. The other trend is for governments to regulate extraterritorially on disclosures with regards to human rights. The UK Modern Slavery Act is the recent example, that requires of companies to disclose certain information with regards to due diligence for contemporary slavery. Other such regulatory requirements with extraterritorial reach includes EU directive on disclosure of non-financial information, the Dodd Frank Act’s Section 1502 on Conflict Minerals and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act.
During this training, we will look into the trends and tools that are currently shaping best practice for human rights reporting. We will dive into the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, which was launched in 2015 and provides the first-ever developed human rights reporting guidance for companies. Concrete examples of how companies already have made use of the framework and reported on their “salient human rights issues” will be scrutinised.
We will explore how leading reporting tools notably the Global Reporting Initiative can be used and complemented for engaging human rights reporting.
WHO IS THIS TRAINING RELEVANT FOR?
The training is relevant to anyone interested in corporate responsibility, business and human rights, and sustainability reporting. It will equip you with an understanding of what constitutes meaningful human rights reporting and how your organisation can make use of available tools, emerging best practice and be ahead of the developments in human rights reporting.
COSTS, DATES and LOCATION
Costs: SEK 1 900 /EUR 190 excl. VAT. Prices include lunch, coffee/tea and snacks during the day. We offer a 20 % discount for non-profit organisations.
Enact organises this training on the following dates:
• January 25 (9.00 to 17.00) in Stockholm, Vasagatan 7. This training will be conducted in partnership with H&M.
• March 16 (9.00 to 17.00) in Stockholm. This training will be conducted in partnership with H&M.
• April 11 (9.00 -17.00) in Amsterdam, James Wattstraat 100.
TRAINERS
Sandra Atler is a human rights lawyer with a law degree from Stockholm University and an LL.M.-degree from Columbia University Law School where she was a Fulbright scholar. As an internationally recognized expert on business and human rights, Sandra was part of Professor John Ruggie’s team in the development of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Today Sandra is Director of the Human Rights and Business Practice Group, established by Enact in 2015. Sandra has supported companies across the globe and across various industries to understand and manage human rights risks. Between 2011 and 2013 she worked in Africa, implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the mining sector. She was chair of the NGO-caucus in the development of ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility, a core member of the international standard drafting team, and co-chaired the ad-hoc working group on human rights for 5 years. She also has extensive experience working as a human rights advocate in civil society.
Sofie Nyström is Sustainability Business Expert Human rights in the Global Sustainability Department at H&M. A sustainability business expert with over 10 years’ experience within H&M, from retail organization, store logistics and human resources projects. In 2008 joined the Social Team at H&M’s sustainability department specifically working on social value chain issues and focusing on the implementation of H&M’s code of conduct in the supply chain. In following years, continued to drive sustainability business integration towards internal business functions and a key person in defining the H&M strategic approach on human rights. Today the focus is on integrating a UNGP approach in processes, ensuring a systematic implementation of human rights in due diligence processes and producing trainings and translating social policies into practice throughout the company. Responsibilities also include driving reporting on human rights such as GRI and the UNGP Reporting Framework.