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Additionally, the Global Compact holds a number of online COP trainings.
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Human Trafficking and Forced Labour |
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28 January Marie Wibe
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Maplecroft, with the support of the GE Foundation, this webinar will address how responsible businesses can mitigate the risk of association with human trafficking and forced labour in their operations or supply chains. The dilemma for business is how to detect, prevent and take corrective measures against these hidden and insidious forms of exploitation. The webinar will also explore suggested best practices to help companies mitigate related risks, and will provide participants with an opportunity to share their views on how other companies have addressed this challenging issue. Please email Aygun Kazimova (aygun.kazimova@maplecroft.com) to register, or visit the Maplecroft website for more information. |
Business and Women’s Health |
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7 February Lauren Gula
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This webinar will introduce examples of innovative approaches to empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community, focusing on women’s health initiatives in the private sector. These inspirational examples illustrate some of the concrete ways in which companies can and are taking action to implement the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs). The WEPs are a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, with around 500 CEO signatories from all industry sectors and regions of the world. |
Web Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: The Benefits for Business |
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12 February Sean Cruse
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Web accessibility is a precondition for all persons with disabilities to enjoy the use of the internet. Without it, producers of websites, web browsers, content management systems, and other web software may involuntarily exclude millions of users from their potential audience. While there is effort associated with implementing web accessibility consistently, there are many benefits for businesses that are often underestimated. This webinar will explore this issue in detail by featuring examples from companies on how they have taken steps to assure the accessibility of their content. Issues covered will include: expanding customer base; improving usage for all; search engine optimization; leveraging web developments required for mobile use and compliance. Additionally how web accessibility is linked to the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be reviewed. This webinar is organized in partnership by the UN Global Compact, ILO Global Business and Disability Network and G3ICT. |
Update on COP Advanced Criteria for Business Participants |
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19 February and 20 February Sarah Bostwick
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Business participants are invited to preview refinements to the GC Advanced level criteria, before they take effect later in the first quarter of 2013. The minor refinements align the advanced criteria more closely with the Blueprint for Corporate Sustainability Leadership. The webinar is pertinent to those who report or aim to report in the future at the GC Advanced level -- including LEAD companies. This is an opportunity to ask clarifying questions and understand how the updates affect communication on progress. |
Consultation on Business Reference Guide on UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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27 February Michelle Lau
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The Global Compact has released the Exposure Draft of the Business Reference Guide to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and is accepting comments through 1 June 2013. Interested individuals are invited to participate in this webinar to share perspectives on the draft and how businesses can respect and support indigenous peoples’ rights. In particular regional perspectives and experiences from the Asia-Pacific region will be featured.
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Migrant Workers and Business - Challenges and Opportunities |
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1 March Venu Keesari
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Facilitated by experts of the ILO’s Labour Migration Programme, this webinar will provide practical guidance on how businesses and employers can address the many challenges related to international labour migration and provide meaningful support to migrant workers in line with the Global Compact Labour Principles and the relevant international standards of the ILO. Participants will be presented the “business case” for promoting migrants’ rights as well as examples of good practices and initiatives undertaken by members of the business community to inspire them to similar action and engagement on the issue. |
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Living Wage / Working Hours |
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20 March
Marie Wibe
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Maplecroft, with the support of the GE Foundation, this webinar examines how responsible businesses can ensure that they and their partners and suppliers pay a living wage to employees when the host country does not have a statutory minimum wage or when the minimum wage fails to provide an adequate standard of living. The webinar will also explore the issue of working hours in the context of international standards, overtime and the pressure on some labourers to work excessive hours. Participants will examine how companies have addressed these challenging issues. |
Consultation on Business Reference Guide on UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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9 April Michelle Lau
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The Global Compact has released the Exposure Draft of the Business Reference Guide to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and is accepting comments through 1 June 2013. Interested individuals are invited to participate in this webinar to share perspectives on the draft and how businesses can respect and support indigenous peoples’ rights. In particular regional perspectives and experiences from the Americas region will be featured. |
Seminario Virtual de Consulta: Exposición de Borrador para una Guía de Negocios y Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas |
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17 de abril Michelle Lau
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Con el fin de recibir comentarios, el Pacto Mundial ha publicado el borrador de la Guía de referencia empresarial sobre la Declaración de la ONU de los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (UNDRIP), que 1) ilustra en qué medida se pueden ver afectados por las empresas los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, ya sea de forma positiva o negativa, y 2) sugiere acciones prácticas. Todas las personas que lo deseen pueden consultar y comentar el borrador de exposición (hasta el 1 de junio de 2013). Todos los interesados pueden enviar sus comentarios a undrip@unglobalcompact.org y/o comentar en el seminario virtual de consulta. |
Grievance Mechanisms For Business and Human Rights |
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18 April 2013 Anita Househam
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This webinar will explore the role of company-level grievance mechanisms, their benefits and limitations, their relationship to other means of addressing stakeholder concerns, and some key considerations when designing a mechanism to be effective in practice. The discussion will also include examples and perspective from business representatives. |
Good Business Practices to Address Human Trafficking |
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22 April Matthew Daly
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Co-organized with End Human Trafficking Now, this webinar is the first in a series that will showcase business initiatives that were nominated for the Business Leader’s Award to Fight Human Trafficking in its first two cycles. The award aims to identify and reward good business practices preventing and tackling human trafficking - an issue that is increasingly recognized as a concern and risk for the corporate world. The webinar will explore innovative business approaches, with nominees sharing their good practices, challenges and lessons learnt in preventing and mitigating risks of human trafficking within their company’s operation and supply chains. |
Investing the Rights Way: A Guide for Investors on Business and Human Rights |
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23 April Matthew Daly
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Internationally-accepted frameworks now exist that define the responsibility of all companies with respect to human rights. This also extends to investors, who are looking to integrate human rights effectively and consistently into investment decision–making and corporate engagement. The webinar will focus on a new report, Investing the Rights Way: A Guide for Investors on Business and Human Rights, which aims to assist investors in evaluating human rights–related issues across their portfolios. Panelists will include representatives from the organizations behind the new Guide: the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Calvert Investments and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. |
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Doing Business in Conflict-Affected Countries |
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29 April Marie Wibe
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Maplecroft, with the support of the GE Foundation, this webinar will address how businesses can operate responsibly in conflict-affected or fragile countries and weak governance zones to ensure that operations contribute to peace-building rather than aggravate tensions and instigate conflicts. The webinar will also explore suggested best practices to help companies mitigate the risks of operating in conflict-affected environments, and will provide participants with an opportunity to share their views on how other companies have addressed this challenging issue.Please email Aygun Kazimova (aygun.kazimova@maplecroft.com) to register, or visit the Maplecroft website for more information. |
Consultation on Business Reference Guide on UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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30 April Michelle Lau
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The Global Compact has released the Exposure Draft of the Business Reference Guide to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and is accepting comments through 1 June 2013. Interested individuals are invited to participate in this webinar to share perspectives on the draft and how businesses can respect and support indigenous peoples’ rights. In particular regional perspectives and experiences from the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions will be featured. |
Local Populations and the Social License to Operate |
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13 May Matthew Daly
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This webinar will address relationships between businesses and the communities in which they operate, focusing specifically on the extractive industry. Compelling business arguments for proactive and robust human rights due diligence will be presented, and participants will explore how even unanticipated and unintentional impacts on the rights of local people can pose risks to a company’s social license to operate in a region, its productivity and its reputation. Panelists will share examples of best practices to avoid negatively impacting the human rights of local populations and lessons learned from previous impacts that apply across sectors. |
How Global Enterprises are Responding to the Global Call for the Extension of Social Protection |
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14 May Venu Keesari
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Social protection, and more specifically its global extension through national social protection floors, is on the agenda of major international summits, such as the G20, the International Labour Conference 2012, Rio+20 and post-MDGs discussions, among others. This one hour webinar will shed light on how multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute to this global challenge as part of their commitment to socio economic development, addressing social challenges, and the potential benefits for employers, workers and society. Drawing on concrete examples from corporate policies and practices, the webinar - conducted by experts of the ILO Social Protection Department, with the participation of a Danone representative - will explore the drivers, corporate strategies and concrete results of MNEs providing a minimum level of social protection for all their employees worldwide. |
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Security Forces |
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15 May Marie Wibe
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Maplecroft, with the support of the GE Foundation, this webinar will address how responsible businesses can ensure respect for human rights when working with public security forces. In particular, the webinar will examine the reputational and legal risks posed by public security providers over which companies have limited control. The webinar will also explore suggested best practices to help companies mitigate risks as they seek to protect their personnel and assets, and will provide participants with an opportunity to share their views on how other companies have addressed this challenging issue. Please email Aygun Kazimova (aygun.kazimova@maplecroft.com) to register, or visit the Maplecroft website for more information. |
Traceability in Global Supply Chains: Initial Findings from the Traceability Task Force and Plans for the Future |
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22 May Anita Househam
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In 2012, the Global Compact’s Advisory Group on Supply Chain Sustainability established a task force to identify common challenges of and solutions to tracing product and raw materials through complex global supply chains. Co-hosted with Traceability Task Force member BSR, this webinar will explore preliminary findings from Phase One of the project and plans for the development of a Guide on Traceability in Phase Two. There will be presentations from companies and industry-specific traceability systems that contributed to the first phase of the project who will share traceability examples from their sectors. The end of the webinar will be reserved for audience members to ask questions or share their own insights on the topic. |
Inclusive Sourcing: A Key Pillar of Sustainable Procurement |
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29 May Lauren Gula
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Co-convened by the Global Compact, the International Trade Centre, WEConnect International and BPW International, this webinar will explore the "why" and "how" of sourcing from women-owned businesses. Principle 5 of the Women's Empowerment Principles, which encourages companies to expand their business relationships with women-owned businesses, will provide a starting point for discussion. The conversation will go on to explore how supply chains offer a unique opportunity and means for companies to promote human rights and have a positive impact on economic development by offering economically disadvantaged groups, including women, an equal opportunity to compete for business. |
PRME Webinar on Supply Chain Sustainability |
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7 June PRME |
This webinar will offer an overview of the Global Compact's Supply Chain Sustainability workstream, resources and projects related to topics, such as traceability and anti-corruption. Two business representatives from the Global Compact Advisory Group on Supply Chain Sustainability will share their experiences. Participants will also explore ideas for collaboration between business and academia on supply chain sustainability. |
Managing Human Rights Risks in the Supply Chain: Keeping your Social License to Operate |
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13 June Matthew Daly
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Considered through the lens of social license methodology, panelists will explore how participants can analyze their operations and the practices of businesses in their supply chain to avoid contributing to negative impacts on human rights, such as child labour. Participants will discuss the importance of meeting the minimum requirements to respect human rights as outlined by the Global Compact principles and the Guiding Principles and how doing so can help mitigate potential risks to a company’s reputation and bottom line. Business panelists will share best practices and lessons learned about assessing human rights risks in their operations, and strategies they have used to prevent or respond to them. |
Call to Action: Anti-Corruption and the Post-2015 Development Agenda |
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13 June Da Woon Chung
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The Call to Action is a year-long campaign to mobilize business to fight corruption and ensure that the future global development framework is grounded in ethical business practices and good governance. The campaign asks Global Compact business participants to join forces with Governments and encourage them to create enabling environments for more robust disclosure, transparency and enforcement mechanisms that contribute to sustainable development. This webinar will offer Global Compact participants and other interested stakeholders an opportunity to learn about the importance of anti-corruption in the post-2015 development agenda as well as ways in which they can support this campaign. |
Diversity & Gender Equity as an Investment Opportunity: Progress and Impact of the Women's Empowerment Principles |
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18 June Lauren Gula
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This webinar will highlight cutting-edge research that supports the business case for women's empowerment. There will be an opportunity for Global Compact participants and signatories of Principles for Responsible Investment to take stock of the growth and impact of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) initiative to date and discuss how the investor community can help advance gender equality and women's empowerment by encouraging companies to embrace the WEPs. |
Occupational Health and Safety – Lessons from the Bangladesh Factory Collapse |
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19 June Anita Househam
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The recent factory-building collapse in Bangladesh, claiming the lives of |
Good Business Practices to Address Human Trafficking - Travel & Tourism |
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20 June Matthew Daly
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This webinar is the second in a series that will showcase business initiatives that were nominated for the Business Leader’s Award to Fight Human Trafficking, which aims to identify and recognize good business practices for preventing and tackling human trafficking. This webinar will explore innovative business approaches in the travel and tourism sector, with nominees sharing their good practices, challenges and lessons learned in preventing and mitigating the risks of human trafficking. |
Business and the Realization of Indigenous Peoples' Rights |
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16 July Venu Keesari
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In many countries, businesses come across human rights challenges that affect indigenous peoples, including discrimination, child labour and forced labour, lack of voice and/or effective participation in decision making processes, lack of decent work opportunities, and recognition of their land rights. This webinar will be conducted by ILO experts on indigenous peoples who will discuss contributions by government, enterprises, employers’ and workers’ organizations to the realization of indigenous peoples’ rights. |
Growing into Your Sustainability Commitments: A Roadmap for Impact and Value Creation |
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17 July Christina Koulias
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Co-hosted by the UN Global Compact and AccountAbility, this one hour webinar will profile how companies integrate voluntary sustainability commitments into their strategies and operations. The webinar will draw upon findings from the recent report by Global Compact and AccountAbility: Growing into Your Sustainability Commitments: A Roadmap for Impact and Value Creation. The webinar will look at how companies move along the Sustainability Commitment Growth Curve (SCGC), which provides a framework to help companies navigate their engagement with, and derive value from voluntary sustainability commitments. |
Equality and Human Rights for the LGBT Community: the Role of Business |
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22 July Matthew Daly
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The private sector has frequently taken the lead in protecting the human rights of the LGBT community, for example by implementing non-discrimination policies that respect these rights to a greater degree than legally required or channeling resources to support LGBT rights outside the office. Businesses action to respect and support LGBT rights is an example of both the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Global Compact Principle 1 in practice. This webinar will explore LGBT human rights from the UN perspective, including increased attention to the issue since the Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 17/19 – the first UN resolution on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity. The webinar will also present examples of businesses working to respect and support LGBT human rights in line with UN goals and the tangible benefits they realize as a result. |
Business and the Realization of Indigenous Peoples' Rights |
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16 July Venu Keesari
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In many countries, businesses come across human rights challenges that affect indigenous peoples, including discrimination, child labour and forced labour, lack of voice and/or effective participation in decision making processes, lack of decent work opportunities, and recognition of their land rights. This webinar will be conducted by ILO experts on indigenous peoples who will discuss contributions by government, enterprises, employers’ and workers’ organizations to the realization of indigenous peoples’ rights. |
Introduction to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Spanish / Introducción a los Principios Rectores sobre las empresas y los derechos humanos en español |
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24 July Matthew Daly
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The Global Compact and the Office of the High Comissioner for Human Rights will host this webinar in Spanish to introduce the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The Guiding Principles provide an authoritative global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity and help clarify the meaning of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. This webinar will also feature National Human Rights Institutions from Spanish-speaking regions as possible partners for advancing Human Rights at the local level. El Pacto Mundial y la Oficina del Alta Comisionada de las Naciones para los Derechos Humanos organizan un seminario web en español en el que presentarán los Principios Rectores sobre las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos. Los Principios Rectores constituyen un estándar global autoriario para prevenir y hacer frente a los riesgos de impactos adversos sobre los derechos humanos vinculados a la actividad empresarial y ayudar a aclarar el signifcado de la responsabilidad corporativa de respetar los derechos humanos. Este seminario también contará con Instituciones Nacionales Para La Promoción y Protección de los Derechos Humanos de regiones hispanohablantes como posibles socios para promover los derechos humanos al nivel local. |
Growing into Your Sustainability Commitments: A Roadmap for Impact and Value Creation |
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24 July Christina Koulias
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Co-hosted by the UN Global Compact and AccountAbility, this one hour webinar will profile how companies integrate voluntary sustainability commitments into their strategies and operations. The webinar will draw upon findings from the recent report by Global Compact and AccountAbility: Growing into Your Sustainability Commitments: A Roadmap for Impact and Value Creation. The webinar will look at how companies move along the Sustainability Commitment Growth Curve (SCGC), which provides a framework to help companies navigate their engagement with, and derive value from voluntary sustainability commitments. |
Supply Chain Sustainability - Practices and Resources by Global Compact Local Networks |
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25 July Anita Househam
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This webinar will showcase how Global Compact Local Networks work closely with companies to develop more sustainable and responsible supply chain practices. Through capacity building, providing materials and tools, building partnerships and sharing experiences, Local Networks have helped guide and support companies as they engage with their suppliers and embed supply chain sustainability into their existing programmes and operations. The webinar will include presentations from the Global Compact Local Networks from Turkey and the UK. |
Responsible Engagement on Climate Change Policy |
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25 July EnvironmentCaring for Climate |
This webinar is the second in a series for a study Caring for Climate is conducting on Corporate Engagement on Climate Change Policy, together with the World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Ceres and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The study seeks to help companies evaluate, improve and demonstrate responsible influence on climate change policy, as well as to develop guidance material and recommendations for companies to become responsible corporate climate stewards. This webinar will present draft conclusions from the research for stakeholder input. To register, please contact caring4climate@un.org. |
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Child Labour |
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4 October Shubha Chandra
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Maplecroft, with the support of the GE Foundation, this webinar will outline the dilemma responsible businesses face in addressing the presence of child labour in its supply chain, particularly in locations where child labour is relatively common and where there is evidence that removing income-generating opportunities will push children into deeper poverty or other forms of exploitation. Participants will explore suggested best practices to help multinational companies engage in human rights due diligence in their supply chains, including to positively impact child labour. |
Introduction to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in French/ Webinaire en Français sur Les principes directeurs relatifs aux entreprises et aux droits de l’homme |
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16 October Shubha Chandra
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The Global Compact and the Office of the High Comissioner for Human Rights will host this webinar in French to introduce the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The Guiding Principles provide an authoritative global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity and help clarify the meaning of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. This webinar will also feature a human rights institution which will provide insight into advancing human rights at the local level. Le Pacte Mondial et le Haut Commissariat aux droits de l'homme tiendront un webinaire en français sur les principes directeurs relatifs aux entreprises et aux droits de l’homme. Les principes directeurs fournissent une norme mondiale autoritaire pour prévenir et combattre le risque d'impacts négatifs sur les droits de l'homme liés aux activités d'entreprises, et aident à clarifier ce que signifie la responsabilité des entreprises à respecter les droits de l’homme. Ce webinaire comprendra également une organisation de défense des droits de l'homme qui donnera un aperçu de l'avancement des droits de l'homme au niveau local. |
Empowering Children and Youth Through Financial Literary and Inclusion |
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7 November Elena Bombis
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Child and Youth Finance International, this webinar will explore how companies are finding ways to empower children and youth through financial literacy and inclusion. It will focus in particular on how financial institutions are designing innovative programs and technologies to raise awareness and skills among children and youth – particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds – on how to achieve financial security. The webinar will feature a discussion with companies who will share their experiences of the challenges and opportunities in implementing such initiatives. These insights are intended to inspire others to consider how to empower children and youth through their own core business strategies and operations. |
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Human Trafficking and Migrant Workers |
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11 November Shubha Chandra
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Co-hosted by the Global Compact and Maplecroft, with the support of the GE Foundation, this webinar will discuss how responsible businesses can mitigate the risk of association with human trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers in their operations or supply chains. Participants will examine situations where migrant workers form a significant part of the workforce and the role of government in providing them with adequate protection. Participants will also explore suggested best practice to help multinational companies detect, prevent and take corrective measures against violations related to human trafficking and migrant workers. |
