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The CEE&CA Summer Academy

on Business and Human Rights

21 – 27 September 2022

on-line

Introduction

Dear Participants,

Welcome to the “Materials for Participants” sub-page – your point of reference from now throughout the whole Summer Academy, where you will find the Pre-Summer Academy reading materials as well as a set of introductory video materials developed by the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI), to help you get familiar with the Business and Human Rights (BHR)/ UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) language. All this material aims to introduce you to some of the core concepts so that you find it easier to follow the Summer Academy sessions, and thus gain more from it.

Below you will find – for now – two major sections:

a) GBI Business & Human Rights 101 – Learning Materials [compulsory modules: introduction, Module 1, Module 4. Other modules are optional but we strongly recommend watching them all before the start of the Summer Academy]

b) Pre-Academy reading [all articles listed there are compulsory and are aimed both to introduce you to the core aspects of the session with which they are linked and enable you to take active part in the discussions during the Summer Academy].

As we will move closer to the Summer Academy, we will add additional sections in which you will find the presentations and handouts in English and in Russian.

Should you have any issue with accessing the materials – please let us know by writing to the CEECA SA Secretariat’s email: ceeca-academy@pihrb.org

Enjoy discovering BHR!

GBI Business & Human Rights 101 – Learning Materials

→ Overview of this learning resource

Introduction and welcome

Introducing the modules and how to use this resource

Polski Instytut Praw Człowieka i Biznesu | Materials for participants

Module 1: Getting started – 45 mins

1.1 The business case for respecting human rights

1.2 Getting started on business and human rights

1.3 What are the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs)?

Module 2: Some first steps – 45 mins

2.1 Establishing direction, roadmap and making a policy commitment

2.2 Identifying human rights impacts

2.3 Dealing with grievances effectively

Module 3: Embedding respect for human rights in a company – 60 mins

3.1 Driving change, raising awareness, training and capacity building

3.2 Engaging effectively to address issues in the supply chain

Module 4: A thematic challenge in focus – 20 mins

4.0 Climate change and business and human rights

Pre-Academy reading materials

Overview:

Anita Ramasastry, Corporate Social Responsibility Versus Business and Human Rights: Bridging the Gap Between Responsibility and Accountability; Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 237-59 (2015), University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-39.

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Krajewski, Markus, Kristel Tonstad, and Franziska Wohltmann. „Mandatory human rights due diligence in Germany and Norway: Stepping, or striding, in the same direction?.” Business and Human Rights Journal 6.3 (2021): 550-558.
Bueno, Nicolas, and Christine Kaufmann. „The Swiss human rights due diligence legislation: Between law and politics.” Business and Human Rights Journal 6.3 (2021): 542-549.

Conflict session:

International Alert, Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice (2005)- please read introduction. Relevant excerpts available here.
Australian Red Cross & RMIT University, Doing Responsible Business in Armed Conflict. Risks, Rights and Responsibilities (IHL for business guide), pages 12-28.
UN Working Group report on conflict and business.

High Risk Sectors – Agriculture:

Antras, Pol. Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9114. Washington: World Bank Publications, 2020.
The Economist Intelligence Unit. No more excuses: Responsible supply chains in a globalised world.London: EIU Publishing, 2017.
Rodrik, Dani. The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press for the Overseas Development Council, 1999.
OECD. OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2016.
World Bank. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2020. Chapters 1, 3 and 8.

Investors:

ICCR, Investor Toolkit on Human Rights.
Business response to war in Ukraine.
Inclusive Development International, Myanmar ESG Files.
ICCR, Catalyzing Corporate Change: 2022 Proxy Season Recap.
UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, UNGPs 10+: A roadmap for the next decade of business and human rights (only pp. 38-40, the section entitled: Seize Financial Sector ESG Momentum and Align the S in ESG with the UNGPs).

Workshops on HRDD, incl. HRIA:

Nestlé Indonesia Palm Oil HRIA report, Labour rights assessment: Nestlé’s palm oil supply chain in Indonesia.

Presentations and handouts:

First Part of Summer Academy: Theory Block, 21-23 September 2022

Handouts:

Day 1th session no 3 (10.45-11.30) Human Rights – setting the stage Prof. Gudmundur Alfredsson
Day 1th session no 5 (13.00-13.45) Business and Human Rights (BHR) before the United Nations Guiding Principles. How we got to where we are now Prof. Peter Muchlinski
Day 3rd session no 3 (10.45-12.15) Minority & Indigenous peoples rights in the business context Prof. Gudmundur Alfredsson
Day 3rd session no 4 (13.00-14.30) Access to remedy. State judicial and non-judicial and non-state grievance mechanisms Prof. Peter Muchlinski

Presentations:

Day no 1: 21th September 2022

session no 1 (9.30-10.00) Key presentation Prof. Anita Ramasastry Russian language version
session no 4 (11.30-12.15) Enterprise, Group and Supply Chains Dr Agata Rudnicka Russian language version
session no 6 (13.45-14.30) Overview of the BHR standards… Dr Olena Uvarova Russian language version
session no 7 (14.45-16.15) Implementing the UNGPs Global Trends & Current Challenges Dr Nadia Bernaz Russian language version

Day no 2: 22nd September 2022

session no 1 (9.00-10.30) State Duty to Protect (NBAs, NAPs, etc.) Prof. Jernej Letnar Černič Russian language version
session no 2 (10.45-12.15) BHR & Environment. New dimensions and challenges Assistant Prof. Chiara Macchi Russian language version
session no 3 (13.00-14.30) Corporate responsibility to respect human rights. Focus on Human rights due
diligence (HRDD) Dr Claire M. O’Brien Russian language version
session no 4 (14.45-15.15) Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) & Forced labour… Beata Faracik Russian language version
session no 5 (15.15-16.30) BHR in conflict Russian language version
session no 5 (15.15.16.30) BHR in Conflict Dr Siniša Milatović & Ashley Reynolds Russian language version Russian language version

Day no 3: 23rd September 2022

session no 1 (9.00-9.24) High Risk Sectors: Extractives: Introduction Beata Faracik
session no 1 (9.00-9.45) High Risk Sectors: Extractives Ella Skybenko Russian language version

This presentation is based on the publication: Digging in the shadows. EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA’S OPAQUE EXTRACTIVES INDUSTRY Russnian language version

session no 2 (9.45-10.30) High Risk Sectors: Agriculture Tomislav Ivančić Russian language version Russian language version
session no 4 (13.00-14.30) Access to remedy… Prof. Peter Muchlinski & Prof. Janet Dine Russian language version
session no 5 (14.45-15.30) NCP OECD grievance mechanism – underused or ineffective? Bartosz Kwiatkowski Russian language version
session no 6 (15.30-16.15) Holding corporations accountable. Meeting with HR Defenders Umida Niyazova

Second Part of Summer Academy: Workshops Block, 26-27 September 2022

Day no 4: 26th September 2022

session no 1 (9.30-10.30) Being a business practitioner Ron Popper Russian language version
session no 2 (10.45-11.45) Supply chain: a case study Ron Popper Russian language version
session no 3 (11.45-12.25) Business perspective: How we do it? Justyna Weryk Russian language version
sesssion no 4 & 5 (13.15-14.45 & 15.00-15.45) The Danish Institute for Human Rights Introduction to HRIA – methodology and practice Part I & II Russian language version and Case study with questions Russian language version
session no 6 (15.45-16.30) BHR and HRDD in practice Maxime Belingheri Russian language version

Day no 5: 27th September 2022

session no 1 & 2 (9.00-10.30 & 10.45 – 12.15) Workshop – BHR in practice Part I Due diligence: entering a new business venture. (Case studies) & Workshop – BHR in practice Part II Doing business in high-risk areas. (Case studies) Ron Ropper & Andrea Shemberg English & Russian language version

Materials for breakout rooms:

First breakout rooms’ session:

Groups no 1 & 2

Groups no 3 & 4 & 5

Second breakout rooms’ session:

English Russian

session no 3 (13.00-13.45) Workshop – BHR in practice Part III Human rights risks for business in climate change mitigation. (Case studies) Ron Popper Russian language version
session no 4 (13.45-14.30) Role of investors in contributing proactively to the protection of human rights Dr Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt Russian language version

Post-Academy reading materials:

Case study preparation: useful documents and links

CEECA SA template of the case study docx./pdf

Business & Human Rights Information Sheets

The right to form and join trade unions and to strike

Case studies from the region presented at the International CEE&CA Conference:

Ana Dangova Hug | A spillover of carcinogenic six-valent chromium from Jugohrom Plant in the area of Rasce, North Macedonia.
Mariusz Kośla | The fashion industry in Poland.
Nana Khechikashvili | Corporate benefits over human rights: Manganese and ferroalloys production in Georgia.
Valeriia Poiedynok| Borzhava windmills: just transition or just a disaster?
Akaki Kukhaleishvili| Mining company’s adverse impacts on minorities’ rights in Georgia.
Kaja Thiele
Gulnaz Baiturova| Uranium mining operations in Kyrgyzstan.
Olya Peneva| Failing to Resettle the Citizens of Beli Brag.
Snizhana Shevchenko
Krystyna Danikowska
Murat Karypov| Centerra Gold Mining Company’s Impact on Human Rights enjoyment in Kyrgyzstan.
Ruhiyya Isayeva| Offshore Platform No. 10. Case study from Azerbaijan
Franciszek Nowak

Please find below the recordings of Day1 and Day2 of the conference where you can follow the cases being presented by the authors:

Recording Day 1

Recording Day 2

Contact details

SUMMER ACADEMY’S WEBMAIL

ceeca-academy@pihrb.org

CEE&CA SUMMER ACADEMY CO-DIRECTORS:

Beata Faracik, LL.M., PIHRB
Dr Olena Uvarova, YMNLU

LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPERS’ PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR:

Aleksandra Wardak