A RECORDING OF THIS SESSION IS AVAILABLE HERE.Session organized by the Working Group on Business and Human Rights Brief description of the session: This Forum session is part of the Forum track on trends and challenges in promoting business respect for human rights in the context of each region of the world. Focused discussions aim to take a closer look at legal and policy innovations and practices on which progress can be built.
The session will involve presentations by governments that are moving ahead with regulatory and policy innovations, including to promote better human rights due diligence, effective implementation of national action plans on business and human rights and strengthened access to an effective remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses. The presentations will be complemented by perspectives from other relevant stakeholders in a spirit of constructive dialogue.
Objectives of the session: - Share lessons learned from recent government efforts with potential to drive greater policy coherence and reach scale in business implementation of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights.
- Facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue around lessons learned and way forward, including on how to strengthen a race to the top among WEOG countries.
- Help to inform the WG’s project ‘Business and human rights: towards a decade of global implementation' (also known as “UNGPs 10+ / Next Decade BHR”). Centred around the upcoming tenth anniversary of the UNGPs in 2021, the project is taking stock of practice to date, identifying gaps and challenges, and developing a vision and roadmap for scaling up implementation of the UNGPs over the course of the next decade.
Background documents and submissions Italy contribution for the Forum session “Regional trends and dialogue: Western European and Others Group”
Snapshot on NAPs in WEOG, by the Danish Institute for Human Rights
