CLUSTER: Business and Human Rights Cluster Responsible: Prof. Dr. Horst FISCHER/Giulia DI TOMMASO Sessions hrs MONDAY 29 June TUESDAY 30 June WEDNESDAY 1 July THURSDAY 2 July FRIDAY 3 July SATURDAY 4 July 9.30 11.00 Horst FISCHER Contextualising Business and Human Rights Heidi HAUTALA Business and Human Rights: The European Parliament Perspective Giulia DI TOMMASO Business and Human Rights: Compliance/Ethical Supply Chains challenges/opportunities Chris OLDKNOW Business and Human Rights and Digital Markets Thomas ROLF Corporate Responsibility at the GIZ: From Compliance to Shared Value Carmen MARQUEZ CARRASCO University of Sevilla 11.00 11.30 Break 11.30 13.00 Fabrizio MARRELLA Business and Human Rights: Recent Developments in Law and Practice Heidi HAUTALA Case studies Denis FOSSELARD Business and Human Rights: EU Competition Law Business and Human Rights: Public Finance Sector Marcela MANUBENS Business and Human Rights: Social impact/strategic importance of embedding Human Rights into business Closing Panel FISCHER, OLDKNOW, DI TOMMASO 12.30 DISTRIBUTION OF CERTIFICATES 13.00 14.30 Lunch 14.30 16.30 Ryszard KOMENDA Are Ruggie Principles applied in Russia today? HAUTALA, FISCHER, DI TOMMASO Q&As FREE Keynote speech Albie SACHS Presentation of AVSI Get together with lecturers and professors FREE VENICE SCHOOL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 26 June - 4 July 2015 EIUC Monastery of San Nicolò Riviera San Nicolò 26 30126 Venice Lido, Italy

Venice School of Human Rights - Business and Human Rights

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Business and Human RightsThose active in human rights circles, from seasoned experts to curious students, have in the last decade tried to comprehend the implications for human rights of the increased globalisation of economic exchanges. The benefits that globalisation has delivered and the potential it carries for developing countries to move their populations out of poverty are accompanied by significant risks and well documented abuses of human rights. Transnational companies have been an important engine of this process and have ripped major benefits as they moved into new markets. This course is about the responsibilities of TNCs for their human rights impacts. More broadly it is about public law and corporate voluntarism, about regulation and business practice. Lectures will explain regulation, advocacy, business ethics, and corporate voluntarism in several human rights areas and in various business contexts.The aim is to provide a balanced view covering both the legal framework and corporate practice while taking an applied focus. At the end of the course students should be armed with concrete examples and conceptual tools, have an increased sensitivity to the main issues accompanying globalisation, the potential solutions and points of leverage, and an appreciation of the complexity of the debate surrounding business and human rights. Learning ObjectivesInsights in how codes of conduct practically operate and on other practical aspects of business and human rights.In-depth knowledge concerning the circumstances in which international human rights standards are created and applied in regard to private/public economic exchanges;Knowledge about the role of states, the European Union, international organisations, business enterprises and associations in enforcing and promoting corporate responsibilities in relation to human rights.

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CLUSTER: Business and Human Rights

Cluster Responsible: Prof. Dr. Horst FISCHER/Giulia DI TOMMASO

Sessions hrs

MONDAY 29 June

TUESDAY 30 June

WEDNESDAY 1 July

THURSDAY 2 July

FRIDAY 3 July

SATURDAY 4 July

9.30 11.00

Horst FISCHER

Contextualising Business and Human Rights

Heidi HAUTALA

Business and Human Rights: The European

Parliament Perspective

Giulia DI TOMMASO

Business and Human Rights:

Compliance/Ethical Supply Chains

challenges/opportunities

Chris OLDKNOW

Business and Human Rights and Digital Markets

Thomas ROLF

Corporate Responsibility at the GIZ: From Compliance

to Shared Value

Carmen MARQUEZ CARRASCO

University of Sevilla

11.00 11.30

Break

11.30 13.00

Fabrizio MARRELLA

Business and Human Rights: Recent

Developments in Law and Practice

Heidi HAUTALA

Case studies

Denis FOSSELARD

Business and Human Rights: EU Competition

Law

Business and Human Rights: Public Finance

Sector

Marcela MANUBENS

Business and Human Rights: Social impact/strategic

importance of embedding Human Rights into business

Closing Panel

FISCHER, OLDKNOW, DI TOMMASO

12.30

DISTRIBUTION OF CERTIFICATES

13.00 14.30

Lunch

14.30 16.30!

Ryszard KOMENDA

Are Ruggie Principles applied in Russia

today?

HAUTALA, FISCHER, DI TOMMASO

Q&As

FREE

Keynote speech

Albie SACHS

Presentation of AVSI

Get together with lecturers and professors

FREE

VENICE SCHOOL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 26 June - 4 July 2015

EIUC Monastery of San Nicol Riviera San Nicol 26 30126 Venice Lido, Italy