The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), the Business and Human Rights Resource Center, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) are pleased to announce our collaboration in hosting the Civil Society Dialogue on the occasion of the Second Annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights...The Dialogue is intended to provide an opportunity for civil society participants to identify key trends, needs and challenges for effective implementation of the UNGPs and advancement of respect for human rights in the context of business activities, and to identify strategies to harness and communicate civil society perspectives in the specific panels organized during the Second Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights...As part of their registration for this Dialogue, participants will have responded to a short survey...The survey will be open for submissions from 6 November, 2013 to 20 November, 2013. Organizations and individuals unable to attend the Dialogue will be able to complete the online survey. [See website for links to survey & concept note]