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[PDF] Side event at United Nations Durban Review Conference - “The workplace: Addressing racial discrimination & promoting diversity” [Geneva, 22 Apr]
Organizers: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Topic:...This event will focus on some of the practical challenges faced by companies in eliminating racial discrimination and promoting diversity in the workplace.
Panelists:
Moderator: Marcia Kran, Director, Research and Right to Development Division, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Representative of the International Labour Organization working on these issues (TBD);
- Selby Baqwa (Executive Director of Corporate Governance, Nedbank, South Africa);
- Eric Dziedzic (Principal Specialist-Diversity, Strategy Development Unit, Novo Nordisk, Denmark);
- Mandana Zarrehparvar (Director - Equal treatment and access to justice, Danish Institute for Human Rights);
- Sukhvinder Singh (Head of Workplace Integration, Strategy-Policy Directorate, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Great Britain);
- Abiola Okpechi (Anglophone Africa Researcher of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, South Africa);
- Christopher Avery (Director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, United Kingdom).
[All delegates accredited to the Review Conference are welcome to attend]