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Summer School “Business and Human Rights” – from 29 June to 3 July 2020

23 Jun 2020

Business as Usual: notwithstanding the global crisis stemming from the Covid-19 outbreak, the Summer School will take place as tradition.

Also this year the Summer School, now in its third (online) edition, will provide to the enrolled scholars coming from all over the world an understanding of the main challenges concerning the contemporary debate on business and human rights while keeping up with current relevant developments at national, regional and international level.

The Course will focus specifically on the content and impact of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and on their implementation at national and international level.

In addition, two thematic forums concerning highly debated issues will be held: the first one on “Climate Change and Business and Human Rights”; the second one on “Gender, Children Rights and Business”.

Lectures, featuring some of the major worldwide experts in this area, will be organized around three Modules: the State duty to protect human rights; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and the victims’ access to remedy.

The Summer, the first in Italy entirely devoted to the contemporary business and human rights debate, is the result of the scientific collaboration of IRISS-CNR with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, the Wageningen University and Research, the University of Milan, and Human Rights International Corner association.

The Summer School received the endorsement of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Rights (CIDU).

Marco Fasciglione, researcher of CNR IRISS and one of the Co-directors of the Summer Course, will chair the closing roundtable with addresses from Anita Ramasastry, member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, and from Fabrizio Petri, President of the Inter-ministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU).

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