Corporate Social Responsibility: A New Business Framework for Human Rights

Symposium Agenda:

This symposium will explore the latest, most progressive mandates in Corporate Social Responsibility and their impact on the international human rights agenda. By engaging those from across the spectrum of considerations and critiques of CSR, the symposium endeavors to assess the impact of new corporate policies on human rights, governance, and development throughout the world, as well as the place of humanitarian discourse in the global marketplace. Speakers will explore the transition from CSR as humanitarian assistance to CSR within the movement for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), evolutions in corporate governance and corporate citizenship, the work of multilateral institutions in partnering with CSR champions, and the CSR agenda as it relates to indigenous people's rights, the international labor movement, environmental concerns, and anti-corruption campaigns.