Information on the 10th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

2021-12-01

Docip has the pleasure to inform you on the 10^th Annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (FBHR), which will be held online from November 29 to December 1, 2021.

Forum theme: "The next decade of business and human rights: increasing the pace and scale of action to implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights"

Information from the FBHR secretariat

Website
Registration
Concept note
Programme
Speakers
Twitter account: @WGBizHRs
Twitter hashtags: #UNForumBHR / #bizhumanrights
Watch the plenary sessions on UN WebTV
Contact for general queries: ohchr-forumbhr(at)un.org
Contact for logistics and registration queries: ohchr-registrationforumbhr(at)un.org

Docip information

Fact sheet on the 10^th Forum (coming soon)
Docip's online information page (this page)

Indigenous Peoples' Preparatory Meetings

There will be two Indigenous Peoples' Preparatory Meetings for the 10^th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. Interpretation in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese for both virtual meetings is provided by Docip.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021, 3:00 - 6:00 PM Geneva time (UTC+1)

Registration: https://bit.ly/fbhr10-ipc1-reg
NEW: Revised draft agenda
Flier

Friday, November 26, 2021, 3:00 - 6:00 PM Geneva time (UTC+1)

Registration: https://bit.ly/fbhr10-ipc2-reg
NEW: Revised draft agenda

For further information please contact Johanna Massa: johanna.massa(at)docip.org

Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus

The short version of the declaration has been presented in the closing session of the Forum by Benito Calixto Guzmán, General Coordinator of the Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations - CAOI.

Video (full version):

English (June Lorenzo, IITC): (coming soon ...)
French (Adolphe Bope Bope Kwete, DiPY): https://youtu.be/mg3N8XUhfG4
Spanish: (Benito Calixto, CAOI): https://youtu.be/ENVx3SlCUy0
Russian (Dmitry Berezhkov, Arctic Consult): https://youtu.be/jG4bisAVbx0

Text (full version):

Text (short version):

Selection of sessions

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Monday, November 29, 2021

9:00-10:15 - Presenting a road map for the next decade of the UN Guiding Principles
11:50-13:00 - Preventing and remediating climate harm: Who needs to do what?
14:00-15:00 - Opening plenary
16:40-18:00 - Indigenous Peoples and the next decade of business and human rights

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

7:30-8:45 - Business and human rights: Youth as levers of change in Asia Pacific
10:25-11:40 - Empowering people and building a business and human rights community in Central and Eastern Europe
13:00-14:00 - Realizing a decade of action on the UN Guiding Principles – stakeholder perspectives
14:00-15:15 - Human Rights Defenders and the business and human rights agenda
16:45-18:00 - The regional roadmap for the next decade in LAC

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

11:50-13:00 - Regional dialogue session on Africa
12:30-13:45 - Regional dialogue session on the Group of Western European and Other States
15:25-16:40 - Confronting racism: using the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to support transformative action
16:50-18:00 - Closing Plenary

Side-events

There is no official list of side events. We will publish all events know to us in our online calendar here: https://bit.ly/docip-calendar

Please write to info(at)docip.org to have your event included.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

13:30 - 15:30 - Indigenous Peoples Rights and the UNGP Implementation: Business as usual? Experiences of Indigenous Peoples

Thursday, December 2, 2021

15:00 - 16:30 - Voices from the Ground: Tackling the growing threats to human rights defenders, indigenous leaders and local communities through business and government respect for collective land rights

Selection of resources

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