Dear friends and colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to the forthcoming events in which IBFAN will take active part. I hope to see you there and send you my best regards,
Camille Selleger
Challenges and Opportunities of a Treaty on Corporate Abuses of Human Rights
November 18, 2015, 10 - 11.20am
Palais des Nations, Room XXI
Aims & Objectives:
1/ Consider the challenges and opportunities stemming from the IGWG process from the perspective of civil society;
2/ Consider ways in which a treaty might have a positive impact on current situations where corporations impact human rights, including in the food industry and in conflict situations, and;
3/ Identify opportunities for collaboration, mutual reinforcement and synergy among the initiatives in support of the treaty process in the coming year(s).
Panellists:
Aseil Abu-Baker, Al-Haq (Legal Research and Advocacy Officer)
Mike Brady, IBFAN/Baby Milk Action (Campaigns Coordinator)
Emmanuel Nkuba (Researcher in Economic and Social Rights)
Anne Van Schaik, Friends of the Earth International (Economic Justice Programme Officer - TBC)
Debbie Stothard, FIDH (Secretary General, Coordinator of the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma - TBC)
Moderator:
Dominic Renfrey, ESCR-Net
Please note that the access to the Palais des Nations is restricted to UN accredited persons. Refreshments will be served before the event.
Working towards an enabling environment for the promotion and protection of the rights to water, land and food – Linking Global Advocacy with Local Action
A Panel discussion with Laureates of the
“Alternative Nobel Prize”
November 23, 2015, 4 - 6pm
Right Livelihood Award Foundation Office,
Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2E, 1202 Geneva
In his April 2015 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, observed that the dramatic increase in demand for natural resources has brought with it “a plethora of concerns relating to the sustainability of economic growth and its impact on the climate, the environment, and, more generally, on human rights.”
Disregarding their obligation to respect human rights, several corporations are systematically harming communities by grabbing their land, water and resources. The lack of a legally binding instrument to regulate transnational corporations has hindered efforts to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses.
Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award from Botswana, Canada and Geneva, Switzerland are working on the frontlines on these issues, and have achieved tremendous success in promoting and protecting communities’ rights to land, water and adequate food and nutrition amidst shrinking spaces for civil society work in their countries and globally.
Panellists:
Jumanda Gakelebone is spokesperson of the First People of the Kalahari, a grassroots organization representing the Bushmen of Botswana, which received the Right Livelihood
Award in 2005.
Maude Barlow is a Canadian activist, former Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the UN General assembly, Councilor of the World Future Council, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and 2005 Right Livelihood Award Laureate.
Camille Selleger serves as Human Rights Programme Officer at the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which received the Right Livelihood Award in 1998 for its committed and effective campaigning in support of breastfeeding.
Moderator:
Renate Bloem, Head of CIVICUS UN Office Geneva.
RSVP before 20 November to sharan@rightlivelihood.org
The panel discussion will be followed by a light reception. |
