2019 Business and Human Rights Conference in Tokyo
Beyond Business and Human Rights bound to ESG Capital Market～What are the responsibilities of companies that act as a bridge between farmers/workers andfinancial markets?～
About 8 years have passed since the UNGPs wereapproved by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011.
How far have actors such as governments,
companies and stakeholders worked together?
Looking across the world, there are still many
human rights issues that must be addressed, and it
has not yet been able to say that it has achieved
remarkable results.
Under
these
circumstances,
thisyear'sinternational conference will proceed mainly
according to the following themes.
 How should we respond to the movement ofgovernment regulations, such as “Modern
Slavery Act”, UK, Australia, etc.?
 What should we keep in mind to efficiently
develop and implement human rights policies
and due diligence?
 Where should we start to build our own supply
chain management system?
 What are the examples of Grievance
Mechanism and what is its essence?
 What do ESG-related investors expect fromcompanies?
 Is it true that the standards for evaluatingcompanies have changed?

What are KGI and KPI for integrating corporate
strategy with SDGs and ESG?
Introduction of Japanese companies' bestpractices for solving human rights issues
 Response to ESG investors, together withformulation of KGI and KPI Establishment
of
Human
Right
management system
 Responsible supply chain

Enter the rule-making process era!
The WBA (World Benchmarking Alliance) was
launched last year, and it is expected that the rules/ methods of corporate human right evaluation willchange more than ever before in a few years.
Whether companies will catch the wave and work
together to take countermeasures, will also have amajor impact on companies’ sustainable growth.
Now is the time to move!

Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director, CRT Japan

Host：Caux Round Table Japan
Sponsor : ANA Holdings Inc., Teijin Ltd., Nippon telegraph and telephone Corp., Unicharm Corp.,
Sekisui Chemical Co., Shiseido Co. Ltd., Suntory Holdings Ltd.
Cooperation： Fujifilm Corp., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Venue：AP Shinbashi, 3F Shinbashiekimae, A-PLACE,
1-12-9, Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0004
Date : Friday 11th of October, 2019

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Overview of the conference
Date

Friday 11th of October 9:00-17:00 (Reception: 8:30)

Venue

A Room, AP shinbashi, 3F A-PLACE Shinbashiekimae,
1-12-9, Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo-to, 105-0004

Host

Caux Round Table JapanANA Holdings Inc., Teijin Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.,

SponsorUnicharm Corp., Sekisui Chemical Co., Shiseido Co. Ltd., Suntory Holdings Ltd.

Cooperation

Fujifilm Corp., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Institute for Human Rights and Business, The Danish Institute for Human Rights,

Foreign
Organization
Participants

UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub, Bluenumber Foundation, Verisk Maplecroft, Sedex,
Corporate Human Rights Benchmarks, World Benchmarking Alliance, Eiris Foundation
Departments from CSR, Human Resource/General administration, Procurement,
Management and Risk Management, New business planner

Capacity

200 persons (Interpretation in English and Japanese)

Costs【1 Person】
Company: 15,000 yen (ex.tax)
NGO/NPO/Students: 5,000 yen (ex.tax)

Registration
Contact

Please send an email to the following contact address
Caux Round Table Japan
Email: info@crt-japan.jp
TEL: +81-3-5728-6365

SponsorCooperation

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Programme
8:30 - 9:00

Reception

9:00 - 9:15

Opening Remarks

9:15 – 11:30

Executive Director, Caux Round Table Japan, Mr. Hiroshi Ishida
Global trend on "Business and Human rights"
This session will introduce the latest global trends from overseas experts. Also,
following the global trends, the experts will share how Japanese companies should
facilitate business and human rights activities.
【Problem Presentation】(Themes and speakers are subject to change)
First group “Implementation of UNGP”“Human rights impact assessment”(1) Mr. Dirk Hoffman
Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Business,
Danish Inst. for Human Rights(2) Mr. Gus McFarlane
VP, Verisk Maplecroft“Business and Human Rights in Asia”(3) Mr. Livio Sarandrea
Regional Program Manager and Chief Advisor on Business and Human
Rights, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub“Migrant Workers: Key Challenges in the Supply Chain”(4) Mr. Neill Wilkins
Responsible for the migrant workers program,
Human Rights Business Research Institute"Supply Chain Human Rights Impact Assessment ~ Cases in India ~"(5) Mr. Rishi Sher Singh
Supply Chain Sustainability Expert
Second group “New waves of Human Rights Management System”“Innovation in Responsible Supply Chain Management”(1) Mr. Dan Murray
Commercial Director, Sedex(2) Dr. Puvan Selvanathan
CEO, Bluenumber“Corporate Human Rights / SDGs, ESG Benchmark”(3) Ms. Camille Le Pors
Senior Researcher, Corporate Human Rights Benchmarks (WBA / CHRB)(4) Ms. Paulina Murphy
Engagement Director, World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)“2019 CHRB Core UNGP Indicator Assessment of 11 Japanese companies”(5) Mr. Hideki Tanaka
Caux Round Table Japan,“Latest trends in ESG investment”(6) Mr. Peter Webster
CEO, Eiris Foundation

11:30 - 12:30

Lunch

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12:30 – 15:00

Introduction to Business and Human rights initiatives by Japanese companies
and Panel Discussion
This session will introduce responsible supply chain initiatives and human rights due
diligence practices by Japanese companies, which are required to fulfill their
responsibilities to respect human rights outlined by the UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights.
[Presentation theme] (Themes and speakers are subject to change)“Response to SDGs and ESG investors” (Coordinator: Ishida)(1) “ESG initiatives that ESG investors expect from Japanese companies”
Mr. Yoji Ota
Portfolio Specialist, Insight Investment Strategy, Melon Asset Mgt. Japan(2)“KGI/KPI in line with Corporate strategies and ESG perspectives”
Mr. Nobuo Taguchi
Senior Director, CSR Promotion, ANA Holdings Inc.
(3)“Integration of Corporate strategies with SDGs and ESG”
Mr. Yasuhiro Hayakawa Chief Social Responsibility Officer, Teijin Limited"Transparent and Responsible Supply Chain" (Coordinator: Tanaka)(1)“Responsible Procurement of raw material”
Mr. Takashi Matsuse
Procurement global, planning, Kao Corp.
(2)“The Supply chain traceability system through human rights due diligence”
Mr. Hideki Kondo
Vice General Manager, CSR Division, Unicharm Corp.
(3)“SDG Scorecards for Toyo Rice Corporation promoting SDGs with the rice
farmers”
Mr. Keiji Saika
President, Toyo Rice Corp.
“Establishment of Human Rights Management System” (Coordinator: Okada)(1)”Education, Training and Mindset Reform for HR Management promotion”
Mr. Youzou Nakao
Talent Development Group, Human Resource Dept. Ajinomoto Co., Inc.,(2)”Group HR Management System based on ‘Think Globally, Act Locally (e.g.
India)’”
Mr. Daisuke Makino
Manager, HR Protection, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

15:00 - 15:15
15:00 - 16:45

Break
Workshop with global experts and participants
In this session, we will exchange views with global experts in the form of aworkshop on important points in implementing initiatives related to promoting
human rights by private companies. As for the agenda, we will conduct aquestionnaire survey to the participants prior to the conference, and reflect theresults to the agenda.
[Workshop Agenda at the 2018 International Conference] What are relationships between Business and Human Rights and SDGs?
 How will ESG investors see business and human rights issues in the future?
 How do you implement human rights impact assessment?
 What is stakeholder engagement required by the UN Guiding Principles?
 How do you implement grievance mechanism and address the identified human rights issues?
 How do you provide human rights education/training to people applicable to human rights policies?

16:45 - 17:00

Closing Remarks
Executive Director, Caux Round Table Japan

17:00

Mr. Hiroshi Ishida

Close,
Picture (Sponsoring and Cooperation companies and speakers)

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Profile of Foreign Speakers

Camille Le Pors
Senior Researcher
CHRB, WBA
Camille is a Senior Researcher at WBA focusing on the Corporate Human Rights
Benchmark (CHRB). She joined the CHRB in October 2016, and is responsible formanaging the research process, engagement with benchmarked companies andmethodology development and reviews. Prior to this she spent time working with
the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre in London, the International
Criminal Court in The Hague, and for an Overseas Member of French Parliament
in London. Camille holds a BA in International Politics from King’s College London
and a Masters in International Affairs with a focus on business and human rightsfrom the IHEID, Geneva and Fudan University, Shanghai.
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Pauliina Murphy
Engagement Director
WBA
Pauliina leads the WBA’s advocacy and outreach strategy for the WBA and its
benchmarks, building and strengthening relationships with diverse stakeholders,
including investors, civil society and governments, working to ensure that the
Alliance is inclusive and relevant globally. Pauliina joined the WBA from Aviva, aglobal insurance company and asset manager, where she was Head ofInternational Government Engagement. At Aviva, Pauliina drove forward
international policy development and advocacy campaigns on sustainable financeand trade and investment, working closely with multi-lateral institutions such as theUN, G7 and G20. Pauliina ran the company’s global stakeholder and politicalengagement strategy, to change the rules at the highest level so that capital isdeployed to drive sustainable growth.
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Head of Migrant Worker ProgrammeInstitute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)

Neill Wilkins is responsible for all aspects of the IHRB Migrant Workers
programme and in 2011 helped oversee the development of the Dhaka
Principles for Migration With Dignity - a set of human rights based principles thatoffer a clear framework for understanding the recruitment and employment of
migrant workers worldwide. More recently Neill has led much of IHRB’s workaround responsible recruitment and the promotion of recruitment models basedon the Employer Pays Principle which prohibit the charging of recruitment fees
and costs to workers.
Neill also manages IHRB engagement with the modern slavery agenda andspeaks regularly at events focussed on forced labour, trafficking andtransparency legislation. He has worked extensively with the construction,
apparel and hospitality sectors along with participation at intergovernmental
events such as the Colombo Process and Global Forum for Migration andDevelopment.
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Dr. Puvan Selvanathan
CEO
Bluenumber Foundation

Dr. Puvan Selvanathan is CEO of the Bluenumber Foundation, an international
non-profit organization 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, ajoint 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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Dirk Hoffmann
Senior Adviser, Human Rights and Business
The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Dirk Hoffmann works as Senior Adviser in the Human Rights and Business
Department of the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). During his 8+ years
at DIHR, he has provided expert advice on human rights due diligence to leading
multinational companies in various sectors, including food and beverage, oil &gas, mining, logistics/shipping, energy, cosmetics and garment sector in countries
in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Dirk spent his first years at DIHR on human rights risk analysis and led thedevelopment of DIHR’s methodology to analyze country-specific risks of negative
human rights impacts by businesses. He has led and carried out country-level
human rights impact assessments (HRIA) globally in various sectors, including
the Food & Beverage and the energy sector. He is currently managing DIHR’s
partnerships with Nestlé S.A. and L’Oréal.
Dirk holds an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from Lund University,
Sweden, with a focus on international labour law.
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Gus MacFarlane
Vice President
Verisk Maplecroft
Gus has more than 12 years’ experience in providing advisory services to theextractives sector on above-ground risks and opportunities (at group-, regionand operation-level). Key focus areas include human rights, stakeholder
relations, social license to operate, FPIC (free, prior and informed consent),
political risk and business ethics.
Key activities include operational/strategic risk assessment, human rights
impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, strategy/management systemdevelopment and award-winning integrated/sustainability reporting. This
includes extensive work in Australasia, Central Africa, South America, SouthEast Asia, Southern Africa and West Africa.
Experience includes embedded, multi-year advisory relationships with large
international mining companies with interests in higher-risk, higher-reward
locations (including risk management, stakeholder engagement, sustainability
management systems and integrated reporting), to one-off, in-field project
engagements (including risk/impact assessments and action plandevelopment).

Livio Sarandrea
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Manager & Chief Adviser of Regional Program on Business and Human Rights
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Bangkok Regional Hub
Livio Sarandrea, is the Manager and Chief Adviser of UNDP’s Regional
Program on Business and Human Rights based in Bangkok and covering Asia.
Livio started his international career in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina where
he served since 1997 as Human Rights Officer and Senior Human Rights
Officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE). In 2001 he joined the UNDPKO Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
as Chief of Regional Human Rights Office where he coordinated the Human
Rights and war crimes investigative work of 40 Human Rights Officers.
From 2003 to 2010 he worked for the OSCE Mission to Serbia initially as
Human Rights Institutions and Prison Reform Adviser and from 2005 as Senior
Coordinator for Judicial and Legal Reform and Deputy Head of Rule of Law
and Human Rights Department.
Livio Joined UNDP Mozambique in 2011 where he worked as an embedded
Chief Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Justice and the National Human
Rights Commission. During this period, he supported the Government ofMozambique in drafting its Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.
Livio is from Italy and holds a Law Degree with specialization in Internationaland Criminal Law from La Sapienza University, Rome, and a graduate diplomain Human Rights Law from LUISS University, Rome.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dan Murray
Commercial Director
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 forth CRT Japan conference.

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Rishi Sher Singh
A specialist in Business & Human Rights (B&HR),
Supply Chain Sustainability and Manufacturing

MBA- University of Birmingham (UK)Rishi Sher Singh is a specialist in Business & Human Rights (B&HR), Supply
Chain Sustainability and Manufacturing. Rishi’s work goes beyond traditional
audits and towards creating meaningful dialogue on opportunities and challengesof businesses, especially in supply chains. His passion is to design andimplement innovative solutions for businesses which create positive impacts on
people, planet and performance. To bridge the gap between theory and practicein B&HR, Rishi also engages with academic institutions (India, UK & Canada) foraction research projects.
Rishi’s key areas of implementation are UN Guiding Principles (Pillar 2 & 3) andSustainable Development Goals (SDGs- 1,5,10, 12 & 17). Some of Rishi’s
impactful work includes Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA) for
multinational companies, mapping of Mica supply chain in India, enabling Gender
Equality within factories and promoting circular economy. At Hewlett Packard
Company (2005-10), Rishi piloted a unique capacity building model for suppliers& contract manufacturers, which was instrumental in shaping HP’s current
supplier capability programme.
Rishi has directly trained more than 1,150 managers and workers on
Responsible Business practices and facilitated various multistakeholder forums
on Business & Human Rights- in the Electronics sector (in Chennai) andGarments sector (India & Bangladesh). Rishi is a key note speaker at local andglobal events and forums. Rishi holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, MBA
in International Business from University of Birmingham (UK), trained intransformative methods by Landmark Education and certified project manager
from Deloitte.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishishersingh/

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Peter Webster
Head of International Affairs
Vigeo Eiris
Peter Webster has led EIRIS (now after merger part of Vigeo Eiris) since it was
founded in 1983. He has focused on the challenges of providing ESG ratings andresearch to a wide range of owners and managers, helping investors to makegood use of that research and advancing the concept of responsible investment.
Peter is a regular speaker on topics ranging from fiduciary duty to individual ESG
areas and their global evolution as well as how responsible investment cancontribute to a more sustainable and robust financial system. He was treasurer of
the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association for 20 years until theend of 2011 and in October 2013 was elected by PRI asset manager and service
provider signatories to be a member of the PRI Advisory Council. Peter is a
Director of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark where he co-chairs the
Methodology Committee and he is CEO of the EIRIS Foundation which helped tocreate CHRB and acts as the research provider for the annual ranking.

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