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2025 webinars
In October 2025, the Business and Human Rights Centre and FORUM-ASIA held a series of webinars titled “Treaty-making in troubled times” to continue spotlighting critical issues and amplifying the voices of civil society organisations in support of the UN binding treaty process during this critical period.
In the current context of regulatory rollbacks, the first webinar in this year’s series reflected on the importance of regulation and highlight the impact of deregulation on affected people in the Global South to hold companies accountable over human rights abuses. The second webinar examined what it means to create a victim-centred treaty, and how the treaty can address systemic and intersectional vulnerabilities.
Catch up on the 2025 treaty blog series here.
Webinar 1: 7 October 2025 - Organised in partnership with: FORUM-ASIA
With the recent demise of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and regulatory rollbacks seen in some countries, the BHR community is left questioning: what’s next for corporate accountability and access to justice for victims? In this context, the UN Binding Treaty process may now carry renewed significance. Can a binding international instrument fill the regulatory vacuum left behind? Can it re-centre Global South voices that are often marginalised in domestic and regional regulatory efforts?
Webinar 2: 14 October 2025 - Organised in partnership with: FORUM-ASIA.
As treaty negotiations enter their 11th year, one of the most crucial questions remains: Who is the treaty really for? Articles 4 and 5 of the current draft treaty seek to define victims and their rights. Yet, there is growing recognition that these definitions must go beyond legal technicalities to meaningfully reflect lived experiences of harm, especially those of women, children, Indigenous Peoples, migrants, and people affected by conflict.
2024 webinars
2024 marked the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of the Human Rights Council resolution that created the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on a legally binding instrument on business and human rights. Drawing from our engagement with stakeholders on the binding treaty, we explored the opportunity of the treaty and remaining challenges in the text through reflection by legal experts in a three-part series of roundtable discussions.
Catch up on the 2024 treaty blog series here.
BHRRC
Webinar 1: Fostering inter-regional learning: Establishing national frameworks to regulate transnational corporations and safeguard human rights in Africa and Latin America
31 July 2024 - Organised by ActionAid in partnership with Cameroon Diplomatic Mission in Geneva (Africa Friends of the Chair), PODER, ESCR-NET, FIDA-Uganda, MACUA/WAMUA, and Pan-African Lawyers Union.
2023 webinars
In order to give civil society organisations a platform for discussion and to foster the debate around critical issues in the development of the Binding Treaty, the Resource Centre and its partners Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Justica Ambiental, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) convened a series of three webinars in July, August and September 2023. Read our summary of the webinar series here and catch up on the blog series here.
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