Seminar: ‘Corporate responsibility: failed rhetoric or future remedy?’

The Australian Human Rights Centre and Allens Arthur Robinson invite you to a seminar :

Corporate responsibility: failed rhetoric or future remedy?

Corporate responsibility encompasses corporate ethics, workplace issues, and environmental as well as human rights concerns. In the context of the current financial crisis and moves by the Federal government to explore improved protection for human rights for Australia, the seminar will consider whether corporate social responsibility initiatives are effective or detract from notions of corporate accountability. The role of business in protecting human rights will be a key focus of the discussion.

The seminar will include speakers from the Office of the United Nations Special Representative on business and human rights, Westpac, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Allens Arthur Robinson, the Australian Human
Rights Centre and the Gilbert & Tobin Centre for Public Law.

Time: 5.30 for 6pm start. Concludes at 7.45pm
Date: Thursday 21 May 2009
Venue: Allens Arthur Robinson
Level 28, Deutsche Bank Place
Corner of Hunter & Phillip Streets, Sydney
RSVP: ahrc@unsw.edu.au by 14th May 2009