Business action on human rights:

Policy development and Implementation Tools

2-day conference, October 26-27 2004

At the Regent's Park Marriott Hotel, London, NW3 3ST

Who'll be at this conference?

Speaker and Delegates will be coming from the following organisations and many more!

BP * Storebrand * Old Mutual Plc * Nestlé UK Ltd * Amnesty International * Allied Domeq * One World Trust * Shell * Rolls-Royce * Rio Tinto * DHL * Norsk Hydro * ING * Novartis * Philips * CARE * Novo A/S * ABN Amro * Scotiabank * De Beers * Novozymes * Warwick Business School * National Grid Transco * Ethibel * Oxfam * BAT * Repsol * Total * USCIB * UBS AG * Novo Nordisk * Save The Children * Eni SpA * Henderson * RWE Thames Water * Alfa Laval Group * Insight Investment * Syngenta * Statoil *

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What's the format?

The agenda for this conference has been specially designed to maximise

networking time to enable you to do more business! We've also made sure to maximise Q + A time during the sessions to enable you to get the questions you want answered!

This 2-day event will be a fully interactive conference with many discussion workshops built into the programme to allow delegates to and share best practices on human rights policy and action in multi-national companies

Day 1: Keynote speeches, debate and case studies on policy development

Day 2: Keynote speeches, practical workshops and case studies on policy implementation and measurement

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What will the conference cover?

Here's just some of the issues this important conference will cover:

- International law of human rights – business in the cross-hairs

- What are the limits of business responsibility for human rights?

- Where do host country governments feel that business should restrict its human rights efforts?

- Business and the right to development

- Practical issues encountered in human rights policy development

- Tooling up – a roadmap to human rights management tools and     approaches

- It’s the people, stupid – putting HR into Human Rights

- Made to measure – setting and reporting on objectives and targets for human rights management

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Which organisations will I learn from?

Here's a list of prominent speakers at the event. Click here to see exactly what they'll be talking about over the 2 days:

Rio Tinto, Head of Comm. & sustainable development, Andrew Vickerman

BP, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Graham Baxter

Shell International, Advisor Social Performance, Monique de Wit

Alfa Laval Group, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, David Ford

US Council for International Business, Vice President, Labor Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, Adam Greene

Founder-Chair of the Amnesty International UK Business Group and former Director of Shell International, Sir Geoffrey Chandler

International Alert, Project Director, Jessica Banfield

Humanist Committee for Human Rights, Holland, Marina d’Engelbronner

Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights & Business Project, Christina Schultz

Warwick Business School CCU, Strategy and International Development , Prof Alyson Warhurst

Margaret Wachenfeld , Consultant

F&C Asset Management plc, Senior Analyst, Governance & Socially Responsible Investment, Kirsty Jenkinson

Insight Investment, , Director, Investor Responsibility, editor of "Business and Human Rights", Rory Sullivan

Oxfam , Health policy advisor, Mohga Smith

Amnesty, Campaign coordinator Economic Relations and Human Rights, Alessandra Masci

DHL , Head of Corporate Citizenship, Richard Corriette

RWE Thames Water, CSR Director, Richard Aylard

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Here's just a few of the other issues this event will cover in detail:

-Engineered products for process industries: Supply chain labour rights
-Pharmaceuticals: Product access
-Tourism: Local community impacts
-Water supply: Product access
-Consumer brands: Elimination of child labour
-Technology: Supply chain labour treatment
-Financial Services: Indirect impacts (the “use chain”)

Human rights management in conflict prone zones: The Conflict Risk Impact Assessment tool

Extractive industries: Managing plant security issues

Human rights monitoring systems: the Human Rights Compliance Assessment

Apparel industry: Supplier monitoring and auditing

Human rights monitoring systems: Implementing the Human Rights Compliance Assessment within Shell International

Building NGO partnerships on human rights

With only a few days to go until this conference begins, reserve your place now to avoid disappointment. Click here to register securely

at the click of a button!

If you have any questions not covered on these conference pages, please call the conference hotline on +44 (0)20 7375 7160 and we'll be happy to any your queries or take your registration over the phone.