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Monday, November 26 • 8:00am - 9:00am
Conversation with the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

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Join the members of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights in an informal conversation about their mandate to promote implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and to chair the Forum.

Working Group members will give an overview of their ongoing work and explain the background for the theme of this year's Forum. The introduction will be followed by a Q&A and an opportunity for participants to make suggestions to the Working Group.

Links to Working Group main page and thematic pages
Interpretation is provided in Korean
Speakers
avatar for Surya Deva

Surya Deva

Grupo de Trabajo de la ONU sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos, Miembro del Grupo de Trabajo de las Naciones Unidas sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos
El Sr. Surya Deva es profesor asociado en la Facultad de Derecho de la City University of Hong Kong. Tiene BA (Hons), LLB y LLM de la Universidad de Delhi y un doctorado de la Facultad de Derecho de Sydney, y ha enseñado anteriormente en la Universidad de Delhi y en el Instituto... Read More →
avatar for Elżbieta Karska

Elżbieta Karska

Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Ms. Elżbieta Karska is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Protection of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law and the Director of the Institute of International Law, European Union and International Relations at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Cardinal... Read More →
avatar for Githu Muigai

Githu Muigai

Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Mr. Githu Muigai is current Associate Professor of Law, Department of Public Law, University of Nairobi; Chairman at the Council of Legal Education in Kenya; and Senior Partner, Mohammed & Muigai Advocates. He previously served as a Commissioner with the former Constitution of Kenya... Read More →
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Dante Pesce

Chairperson, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Mr. Dante Pesce holds a Masters in Political Science from the Catholic University of Chile and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the VINCULAR Center for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development at the... Read More →
avatar for Anita Ramasastry

Anita Ramasastry

Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Ms. Anita Ramasastry is the Roland L. Hjorth Professor of Law and the Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development at the University of Washington School Of Law. She researches and teaches in the fields of law and development, anti-corruption, international... Read More →

Monday November 26, 2018 8:00am - 9:00am CET
Room XXI
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