BHRLA Event: Forced Labour Workshop at the UN Permanent Mission of Canada, Geneva

As forced labour enforcement becomes a global trade priority, how are regulators, corporates, and commercial lawyers operationalising the ILO’s Forced Labour Indicators? Over the past year, the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association, in collaboration with the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern School of Business, have been researching this and associated questions of practice, to inform ongoing investigative, enforcement, compliance and remediation efforts.

This evening drinks reception, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva in collaboration with the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association and the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, will focus on three key issues facing the field: are the ILO Forced Labour Indicators fit for purpose? What are the comparative strengths of the EU market ban on forced labour vis a vis North American and other emerging forced labour import bans? Are trade measures well suited to advance global forced labour prevention, mitigation and remediation efforts?

Moderator:

Nathan Lankford is a Washington, DC-based partner at Miller and Chevalier where he advises multinational companies on cross-border investigations, corporate compliance and due diligence strategies and supply chain risk management.

Panel:

Peter Hood is a London-based Partner at FieldFisher where he specialises in sanctions business and human rights, climate change and ESG matters.

Isabelle Glimcher is a New York-based Senior Research Scientist on the Global Labor team at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.

David Stepp is a Los Angeles-based Partner at Crowell and Moring where he specialises in international trade.

Amy Lehr is Lyon-based counsel for Volvo and has been a strategic sustainability leader in both private commercial legal practice and in house.

Charles Autheman is a Bordeaux-based consultant specialising in forced labour risks and a Fellow of HEC Institute.

Richa Mittal is the Geneva-based Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at the Fair Labor Association.

All timings are CET.