Cross-posted from the UCL Institute of Human Rights

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Event Title:‘Corporate Social Responsibility & Human Rights: Have Ten Years of Voluntarism Worked?’
While international corporations are taken to court for complicity in human-rights abuses and the trade in child labour and sweatshops is still a scourge throughout the world, this event asks whether the international approach to CSR of the last ten years has worked.

The approach of the last decade has focused primarily on voluntary measures taken by companies and enterprises, and finds expression in codes of conduct and non-binding agreements like the UN Global Compact. The CSR movement originally proposed some measures which should be legally binding on corporations, together with voluntary measures, but this was rejected for a voluntarist approach.

Ten years on we can ask: Has this worked?

An inspiring list of speakers will address this question in a panel discussion and a question-and-answer session.

Timetable

*2.30pm: Registration
*3-3.50pm: Keynote speeches (Baroness Onora O’Neill & Susan George)
*3.50–4pm: Break
*4–5:30pm: Panel Discussion (5/10 minutes per speaker followed by Q&A)
*Leif Wenar, Philosopher
*Robert McCorquodale, Director of the British Institute of International & Comparative Law
*Martin Summers, Corporate Social Responsibility Representative for British American Tobacco
*Colm O’Cinneide, Legal Adviser (Equalities) to the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights
*Richard Howitt MEP, Politician
*5.30–7pm: Drinks Reception in the Flaxman Gallery, UCL Main Library

Places are limited, so please book online as soon as possible to secure your place.
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For more event details, please contact Louisa Charles on l.charles@ucl.ac.uk or 0207 679 9743.