Human Rights Due Diligence - Essential Insights for Lawyers & Compliance Officers

Introduction

Lawyers and General Counsel are increasingly being asked to provide advice to businesses and clients on how to mitigate human rights risks and avoid the potential damage to their reputation and finances associated with human rights violations.

To accomplish this, legal professionals must understand the intersection between business and human rights and enhance their knowledge in areas such as human rights due diligence and disclosures.

This new virtual classroom seminar will offer legal professionals essential insights into the evolving regulatory framework and international standards.

It will help you to understand how to best support businesses and clients in achieving effective compliance with these changes by developing a robust approach to human rights due diligence.

The session is suitable for lawyers (both in-house and private practice), compliance teams and company secretaries.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• International standards around business and human rights and human rights due diligence
• Evolving regulatory framework around human rights due diligence, including incoming legislation
• The concept of effective human rights due diligence
• The role of lawyers, in-house counsel, and compliance teams in supporting the business to build an effective human rights due diligence framework
• The value of human rights clauses in contracts
• The role of supplier codes of conduct
• The value of internal collaboration between compliance and sustainability teams

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.