る2017 Business and Human Rights Conference in Tokyo“Building Responsible Supply Chain and Grievance Mechanism”

There has been an increasing demand and expectation

Given these circumstances, we believe that there is afor companies to fulfil their responsibility to respect

growing need for Japanese companies to deepen

human rights as shown by the adoption of the ‘UN:

their understanding on business and human rights,

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’, theimprove their practice, and to share them with the

Sustainable Development Goals, the Modern Slavery

world. Every year since 2013, CRT Japan has

Act, a commitment by G7 leaders to promoteorganised

responsible supply chains at the G7 summit inConference in Tokyo, to introduce good human rights

Germany and the development of the Corporate

practices of Japanese companies to the global

Human Rights Benchmark by investors. Also, after

community.

theBusiness

and

Human

Rightselection victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. and thewithdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European

In 2017 we will again host the conference. Overseas

Union, human rights topics on a daily basis areexperts on business and human rights have been

attracting people's attention.

invited to introduce global trends in their areas offocus.

With

domestic

experts

andJapanese

Given these developments, leading companies havecompanies, they will also elucidate the gap inbegun to conduct human rights due diligence throughperception on business and human rights between

co-operation with NGOs/NPOs and the utilization of

the Japan and the rest of the world, and discuss how

management tools.

to integrate human rights into business operations
while introducing examples of Japanese companies

In the run up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic andthat have done so. We expect this conference to be

Paralympic Games, three years from now, humanthe place for the participants to learn from each other.

rights practices covering supply chains of Japanesecompanies will attract more global concerns.

We look forward to your participation

Host：Caux Round Table Japan
Co-host：Institute for Human Rights and BusinessBusiness & Human Rights Resource Centre
Sponsor : ANA HOLDINGS INC., FUJI OIL HOLDINGS INC.,NIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD., Shiseido Company, Limited
Cooperation：FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
QUICK Corp., Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Venue：Tokyo, AP Tokyo Marunouchi.
Date : 15th September (Friday) 9:30-17:30

Overview of the conferenceDate

15th September (Friday) 9:30-17:30 (Reception: 9:00)

Venue

Tokyo, AP Tokyo Marunouchi ( Nippon Life Marunouchi Garden Tower 3F, 1-1-3 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0005)

Host
Co-hostCaux Round Table Japan
Institute for Human Rights and BusinessBusiness & Human Rights Resource Centre
ANA HOLDINGS INC.

Sponsor

FUJI OIL HOLDINGS INC.
NIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD.
Shiseido Company, Limited
FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation

Cooperation

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
QUICK Corp.
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Brain Center Inc., E-Square Inc., Sustainability Communication Hub Co., Ltd.

SupportTOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., YUIDEA Inc.,
Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation
Social Design Lab., Rikkyo University

Foreign
Organization
ParticipantsInstitute for Human Rights and Business, The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Bluenumber Foundation, Building and Wood Workers International
Ergon Associates Limited, ELEVATE, Sedex, Verisk Maplecroft
Departments from CSR, Human Resource/General administration, Procurement,
Management and Risk Management.

Capacity

100 persons (consecutive interpretation in English and Japanese)

Costs

Company: 30,000 yen (ex.tax) per a person,
NGO/NPO/Students: 5,000 yen (ex.tax) a person

Registration
Contact

https://business.form-mailer.jp/fms/96d010ce52823
Caux Round Table Japan
Email: info@crt-japan.jp

TEL:03-5728-6365

Program (Tentative)
9:00～9:30

Reception

9:30~9:45

Opening Remarks

9:45~12:30

Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director, Caux Round Table Japan

Introduction to Global Trends on Business and Human Rights
This session introduces the latest global trends on business and human rights andoverviews of concrete activities from overseas and domestic experts.
1: Responsible Supply Chain
Puvan Selvanathan
CEO, Bluenumber Foundation

Kevin Franklin
Senior Vice President, ELEVATEDan Murray
Director of Client Development, Sedex

2: Human Rights Impact Assessment
Steve Gibbons
Director - Labour and Human Rights, Ergon Associates LimitedSarah Kerrigan
Head of Human Rights Strategy, Verisk Maplecroft

3: Grievance Mechanism
William Rook
Regional Manager, Middle East, IHRBApolinar Z. Tolentino.Jr
Regional Representative for Asia Pacific, Building and Wood Workers International

4: Information Disclosure and ReportingCathrine Bloch Poulsen-Hansen
Corporate Engagement Programme Manager, the Danish Institute for Human Rights

5: Corporate Human Rights Benchmark
Haley St. Dennis
Communications Manager, Institute for Human Rights and Business

Saul Takahashi
Japan, Korea & Pacific Islands Researcher & Representative,Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
12:30~13:30

Lunch

13:30~15:45

Introduction to Business Cases on Business and Human Rights by JapaneseCompanies
To fulfill responsibility to respect human rights, the UN Guiding Principles on Business andHuman Rights require companies to carry out human rights due diligence. This session
introduces a trend on responsible investment by institutional investors in Japan, businesscases of human rights due diligence by Japanese companies.


Shigeru Sugimoto
Manager, Corporate Brand & CSR, ANA HOLDINGS INC.



Takashi Matsuse
Vice President, Procurement – Planning, Global, Vice President SCM Strategy andPlanning – Procurement, Global Kao Corporation



Tamaki Shimamoto
Department Director, Sustainability Strategy Department, Shiseido Company, Limited

Emi Matsukawa
Principal, ESG Research Center, QUICK Corp

Masashi Kusunoki
Deputy General Manager, Marine Underwriting Dept.,
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

15:45~16:00

Coffee Break

16:00~17:00

WorkshopThis session provides the workshop that the foreign experts and participants can exchange
views on how to advance a respect of human rights.

17:00~17:30

17:30

Closing Remarks
John Morrison, Chief Executive, Institute for Human Rights and Business

Puvan Selvanathan, CEO, Bluenumber Foundation

Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director, Caux Round Table Japan

Close, Picture (Sponsoring and Cooperation companies and speakers)

Profile of Foreign Speakers
John Morrison
Chief Executive, IHRBJohn Morrison has extensive experience working with leading companies on
issues of corporate responsibility and human rights. He worked previously withThe Body Shop International plc and led the Business Leaders Initiative on
Human Rights from 2003 to 2009. He has also worked for a number of civilsociety and governmental organisations on issues of migration, human trafficking
and forced labour.
John has acted as an advisor to a number of governments during theirpresidencies of intergovernmental organisations and has chaired a wide range ofconferences and initiatives in many parts of the world.
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Steve Gibbons
Director - Labour and Human Rights, Ergon Associates Limited
Steve Gibbons is a founding director of Ergon, a specialist consultancy working
on business and human rights, labour, gender and development. Ergon’s clients
include large development finance institutions, global brands, national
companies, public bodies and international organisations.
Steve has worked as a managing consultant on many projects in the 12 years
since Ergon’s formation from human rights impact assessments of Latin
American extractive industry projects, through global supply chain due diligenceprogrammes, to board level strategic direction setting and developing andimplementing training for broad staff groups.
He has worked in over 30 countries during this time. He and colleagues also
developed and implemented the grievance mechanism for the London 2012
Olympic and Paralympic Games.
He has been a consultant to the World Bank, EU, ILO, EBRD, OSCE and arange of other international institutions. He is an expert member of the
independent complaint mechanism of the Dutch, German and French
Development Finance Institutions.
Steve is a UK-qualified lawyer. Prior to Ergon led the labour and employment
law division UK’s largest independent labour relations research organisation.
He also co-founded (and then sold) an innovative online training andprofessional development platform for lawyers CPDCast.com©.
When not working, or spending time with his family, he is most likely to be foundwalking his dog or playing trumpet.

William Rook
Regional Manager, Middle East, IHRB
William Rook is a Business and Human Rights Lawyer and IHRB's Regional
Manager, Middle East. He is the joint Programme Lead for the Mega-Sporting
Events Platform for Human Rights.
Working across IHRB’s Mega-Sporting Events and Migrant Workers focus areas,
William leads outreach and activities in the Middle East, liaising closely withembassies, state entities and major companies across the region, convening
briefings on corporate engagement with issues such as worker welfare,
responsible recruitment and risks around human trafficking and forced labour insupply chains. Leading IHRB's work in Mega-Sporting Events, William
coordinates the multi-stakeholder "MSE Platform" and it's steering committee,
chaired by Mary Robinson.
William studied law at SOAS and International Relations at Cambridge before
training as a Solicitor with Slaughter and May in London.
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Haley St. Dennis
Communications Manager
Institute for Human Rights and Business
Haley has extensive experience in the application of international human rights
and responsible business standards within a wide range of industry sectors,
including extractives, employment and recruitment agencies, ICT, apparel andagriculture.
Haley is the Communications Manager of the Institute for Human Rights andBusiness (IHRB), responsible for strategic and day-to-day management of IHRB’s
communications and engagement across all mediums.
Haley is also the joint Programme Lead for the Mega-Sporting Events Platform
for Human Rights (the MSE Platform). She is also IHRB’s lead within
the Corporate

Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB),

serving

on both themethodology and communications committees.
Haley studied business at the University of Utah and human rights law with
distinction at SOAS in London before completing her graduate diploma in law with
distinction at the University of Law in London.

Dr. Puvan Selvanathan
CEO, Bluenumber Foundation
Dr. Puvan Selvanathan is CEO of the Bluenumber Foundation, an international
non-profit organisation providing a global platform for self-identification andrecognition. Puvan was formerly a United Nations Special Mandate Holder on
Business and Human Rights appointed by the UN Human Rights Council(Geneva), Head of Food & Agriculture at the UN Global Compact Office (New
York), and then Head (New York Office) of the International Trade Centre, a joint
agency of the UN and WTO. Before joining the UN, Puvan was Group Chief
Sustainability Officer at Sime Darby, a Malaysian diversified conglomerate. An
Architect by profession, Puvan holds an MBA and a DBA in Corporate Strategy
and Sustainability.
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Kevin Franklin
Senior Vice President, ELEVATE
Kevin is responsible for new product development and emerging markets. He
has 20 years experience advising business on global risks, analytics andmanagement systems. This includes extensive senior level engagement withmany of the world’s largest companies on corporate strategy, sustainability,
metrics-driven risk management and award-winning integrated reporting.
Prior to ELEVATE, Kevin was the Chief Operating Officer of Verisk Maplecroft
where he also oversaw the supply chain management practice. This included
work on supply chain strategy, organisational resilience, responsible sourcing,human rights due diligence and compliance across a range of sectors including
consumer goods, manufacturing, electronics and extractives.
Kevin has a Masters degree in Policy and Planning, and a PhD from Warwick
Business School with a focus on systems theory, collaborative decision-making,and the role of data / analytics in performance management. He is anexperienced auditor and has authored numerous reports / delivered key notesessions at numerous high-level international fora.

Cathrine Bloch Poulsen-Hansen
Corporate Engagement Programme Manager, the Danish Institute for Human Rights

Cathrine Bloch Poulsen-Hansen, works as Programme Manager and Adviser tothe Corporate Engagement Programme of the Human Rights and Development
Department of the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She has 6 years ofexperience working with companies on human rights risk and impact
assessments as well as policy gap analyses, development of action plans andrecommendations and action plans on human rights implementation. She also
works with company organisations and sector initiatives on developing tools
and approaches to support business respect for human rights. Cathrine also
managed the Human Rights Compliance Assessment tools of the Institute andleads on the national work of DIHR on human rights and business, including therole of the state in protecting human rights and promoting company respect(including reporting requirements, human rights and business action plans,
expectations on state-owned enterprises and public procurement).
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Sarah Kerrigan
Head of Human Rights Strategy, Verisk Maplecroft
Sarah manages Verisk Maplecroft’s human rights due diligence consultancy
portfolio and advises companies from a broad range of sectors – including
finance, retail, oil and gas, metals and mining and ICT – who are seeking
responsible sourcing solutions.
Sarah has particular expertise on modern slavery and labour migration, as well as
children's rights and business. Sarah has over eight years’ experience ofdeveloping and implementing human rights risk management, monitoring andremediation strategies in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia
Sarah holds a master’s degree (MSc) in International Relations from the
University of Bristol, as well as a batcher's degree (BA) in Sociology from the
University of Leeds

Dan Murray
Director of Client Development, Sedex

Dan joined Sedex in 2014 and is responsible for the New Membership, AccountManagement and Membership Services for Europe, North America, Japan,
South Africa and Australia. He spent the previous 15 years in International
Business Development and Account Management roles, most recently as
Business Development Director at MWUK. A graduate of Leicester University,
he has a BA Hons in History & Geography.
Dan has spent the past two years working, through the Partnership with CRT
Japan, to build the Sedex Membership offer in Japan ensuring it is relevant andadds value and will be attending his third CRT-Japan conference.
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Apolinar Tolentino
Regional Representative for Asia Pacific, Building and Wood Workers International
Mr. Tolentino started his work with BWI in 1998 as Education Officer of thePhilippine Project Office. He joined the BWI Regional Office in 2004 as
Regional Education Officer and eventually appointed as the Regional
Representative in 2010. As Regional Representative, he oversees the politicalaffairs of 86 affiliated trade union organisations particularly their campaigns
around workers and trade union rights. Currently, he is spearheading thepromotion and protection of workers rights, based on ILO Core Conventions,relative to Seoul 2018 Winter Olympics and Tokyo 2020 Olympics andParalympics Games.