BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:61cc4e3423c21e5760d7ab6661137cb8 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121115 SUMMARY:"Business and Human Rights commitments of Top 100 listed companies in India based on disclosures in public" - A Talk by Mr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh DESCRIPTION:AbstractThe growing reach and impact of business enterprises have given ris e to a debate about the roles and responsibilities of such actors with rega rd to human rights. This became prominent in 2011 with the endorsement of t he UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). In the India n context, post-liberalization in the 1990s, there has been an exponential expansion of the private sector and inroads by multinationals, including a scenario where a large number of welfare roles have been privatized.\nParal lel to the UNGPs, in a watershed moment for India, in 2011 the Ministry of Corporate Affairs launched the National Voluntary Guidelines for Social, En vironmental and Economic Responsibilities of Business (NVGs), which contain nine broad principles that guide businesses towards more responsible opera tions. Subsequently, the regulator for India’s securities markets mandated the top 100 (now 500) listed companies to report on their Environmental, So cial and Governance performance. Additionally, in 2013-14, the Indian gover nment introduced a law mandating companies above a financial category to ea rmark 2 percent of their profits on corporate social responsibility. These developments extend the role of the state as stated in pillar 1 of the UNGP s which focuses on state duty to protect the human rights.\nAgainst this ba ckground, the presentation would focus on data against the guiding principl e 2 regarding the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. The ove rall presentation would include the information provided in Business Respon sibility reports, and would analyze public disclosures across four domains – policy commitments to Human rights; and within that, specifically, on (a) Workers well being and non-discrimination, (b) Supply Chain and (c) affect ed communities; and (d) CSR beneficiary communities. The presentation would also derive analyses from the India Responsible Business Index, which uses the framework of National Voluntary Guidelines.\nBio-sketch of the speaker Mr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh has around 10 years of experience in the realm of c ommunity mobilisation, community institution building, participatory monito ring and evaluation and decentralised micro-planning. He has directly engag ed with communities in the area of gender equality, sustainable livelihoods and realisation and access to rights and entitlements. He has the experien ce of mobilising women from tribal communities in Central India leading to a formation of a collective of around 5000 women. For the last five years h e has been researching on disclosures and policy commitments of top 100 lis ted companies in India with a particular focus on inclusion in work space a s well as the supply chains. He is the Co-Principal Researcher of India Res ponsible Business Index. He has also led processes for conducting human rig hts due diligence study with particular focus on agricultural Supply Chains .  \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract

The growing reach and impact of business enterprises ha ve given rise to a debate about the roles and responsibilities of such acto rs with regard to human rights. This became prominent in 2011 with the endo rsement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). In the Indian context, post-liberalization in the 1990s, there has been an exponential expansion of the private sector and inroads by multinationals, including a scenario where a large number of welfare roles have been privat ized.

Parallel to the UNGPs, in a watershed moment for India, in 2011 the Ministry of Corporate Affairs launched the National Voluntary Guidelin es for Social, Environmental and Economic Responsibilities of Business (NVG s), which contain nine broad principles that guide businesses towards more responsible operations. Subsequently, the regulator for India’s securities markets mandated the top 100 (now 500) listed companies to report on their Environmental, Social and Governance performance. Additionally, in 2013-14, the Indian government introduced a law mandating companies above a financi al category to earmark 2 percent of their profits on corporate social respo nsibility. These developments extend the role of the state as stated in pil lar 1 of the UNGPs which focuses on state duty to protect the human rights.

Against this background, the presentation would focus on data agains t the guiding principle 2 regarding the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. The overall presentation would include the information provi ded in Business Responsibility reports, and would analyze public disclosure s across four domains – policy commitments to Human rights; and within that , specifically, on (a) Workers well being and non-discrimination, (b) Suppl y Chain and (c) affected communities; and (d) CSR beneficiary communities. The presentation would also derive analyses from the India Responsible Busi ness Index, which uses the framework of National Voluntary Guidelines.

< h4>Bio-sketch of the speaker

Mr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh has around 10 y ears of experience in the realm of community mobilisation, community instit ution building, participatory monitoring and evaluation and decentralised m icro-planning. He has directly engaged with communities in the area of gend er equality, sustainable livelihoods and realisation and access to rights a nd entitlements. He has the experience of mobilising women from tribal comm unities in Central India leading to a formation of a collective of around 5 000 women. For the last five years he has been researching on disclosures a nd policy commitments of top 100 listed companies in India with a particula r focus on inclusion in work space as well as the supply chains. He is the Co-Principal Researcher of India Responsible Business Index. He has also le d processes for conducting human rights due diligence study with particular focus on agricultural Supply Chains.  

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