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Speakers:
Hiroko Mitomi - UK qualified Solicitor/ Managing Director/ 3CS Corporate
Kasei Okumura - UK qualified Solicitor/ Corporate & Commercial

Human rights due diligence

 In 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Council launched a framework to promote respect for human rights by transnational corporations. In 2011, the United Nations published the non-legally binding “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” and encouraged countries to develop “National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights (NAPs)”. Since 2013, more than 20 countries, including the USA, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway, and Japan in 2020, have developed NAPs.

Meanwhile, the international community is increasingly combining non-binding soft law with binding hard law. The European Union's current plans to introduce a number of hard laws on business and human rights have the potential to significantly change corporate management.

In light of these developments, this webinar examined the situation in the UK as a case study. Key points included.

• The United Nations and “Guiding Principles”
• Actions in Japan
• Actions in the UK
• Relevance of ESG and human rights due diligence
• EU legislation
• Question and answer session