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Summer School “Business and Human Rights” – Rome, 24th- 28nd June 2019

10 Jun 2019

The second edition of the international Summer School on Business and Human Rights will start in few days at Temple University’s campus in Rome, from 24thto 28ndJune 2018.

The Course will provide to the almost 30 enrolled scholars coming from all over the world an understanding of the main challenges concerning the contemporary debate on business and human rights.

The Summer School will provide participant scholars (students, researchers, NGO workers, lawyers, CSR experts and other public- and private-sector practitioners) with comprehensive knowledge of the legal mechanisms and tools applicable in the field of business and human rights while keeping up with current relevant developments at national, regional and international level.

A specific focus will be afforded to the content and impact of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, their implementation at national and international level, as well as to the discussions on a Treaty on Business and Human Rights.

Lectures, featuring some of the most important experts of this area, will be organized around three Modules:

  • the State duty to protect human rights;
  • the corporate responsibility to respect human rights;
  • 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 CNR IRISS with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, the University of Milan, the Human Rights International Corner association.

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

Marco Fasciglione, researcher CNR IRISS and one of the Co-directors of the Summer Course, will hold the concluding speech of the opening conference at the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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