Date and Time
Monday April 3, 2017
3:00 pm-5:00 pm
CET
Location
Copenhagen
Topics
#Human Rights
The human rights field is the fastest-growing area of sustainability, and we’ve heard repeatedly that companies find this area the most challenging. As a result, BSR has decided to ramp up its human rights work to help our member companies meet these challenges and drive cutting-edge best practices across the field.
As a follow up to her listening tour last year, Human Rights Managing Director Margaret Jungk will be in Copenhagen to share with our network of companies and other partners some of the recent trends and developments we are seeing in the field of business and human rights. This event will also help you prepare for upcoming trends in the field and give you the opportunity to share your concerns so that our work remains always in touch with real-life needs.
We will also welcome François Zimeray, the French Ambassador in Denmark, who will share his experience and perspectives on human rights in a business context. As a lawyer who became a diplomat, François Zimeray has been involved in and defended human rights issues in various roles and settings throughout his life and career, including completing more than 100 missions as a human rights ambassador as well as witnessing the tragic events at Rana Plaza in 2013 and surviving the terror shooting at a freedom of speech event in Copenhagen in 2015.
Discussions will start at 3 p.m., and will be followed by networking cocktails starting at 4 p.m.
Speakers
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Margaret Jungk, Former Managing Director, Human Rights, BSR
Margaret leads BSR’s global human rights work and brings more than 20 years’ experience working with companies and international institutions to promote sustainable business practices.
Prior to joining BSR, Margaret held a special appointment from the United Nations as a member of the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Business. She was the working group’s first chair, spearheading the drive to promote measuring states’ and companies’ human rights performance and to increase the capacity of the UN to engage the private sector on human rights.
Before joining the working group, Margaret was the founder and director of the business and human rights department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, where she developed and launched the human rights compliance assessment for companies and grew the department to the largest team of business-focused human rights experts at a national human rights institution. In her capacity at the Danish Institute, she led projects with many global companies to help them integrate human rights into their business strategies and operations, including in complex environments.
Margaret holds a Ph.D. in political science, specializing in international human rights law, from the University of Cambridge.
- François Zimeray, French Ambassador in Denmark
