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Jody Kollapen, Chair, South African Human Rights Commission

Event Details

Time: December 2, 2008 at 6:30pm
Location: Friends House
Street: 173-177 Euston Road
City/Town: London
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps...
Event Type: Speaking, event
Organized By: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Latest Activity: Nov. 19, 2008

Event Description

Jody Kollapen, Chair, South African Human Rights Commission, speaking on: “Human rights and business: South Africa and beyond”.

Jody will speak about the subjects below, followed by questions from the audience:
1. human rights & business during apartheid, and in the new South Africa – progress made and challenges that remain
2. interesting private sector cases the Commission has addressed
3. business & human rights in Zimbabwe
4. UK companies operating in Africa
5. Chinese companies operating in Africa
6. why South Africa’s Commission is one of the first to give high priority to private sector issues
7. his message to other national human rights commissions considering giving more attention to the private sector
8. his personal reflections on South Africa

Please RSVP to Joe Westby: westby@business-humanrights.org; phone +44 20 7636-7774.

For more details see http://www.business-humanrights.org

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