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THE
2005 BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR
Exploring Responsibility and Complicity
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December 2005, Old Billingsgate, London
09.00 Registrations
Tea
& Coffee on arrival
09.30
Keynote
speeches: Setting the context for business responsibility
with regards to complicity in human
rights abuses
Moderator:
Mary Robinson (Honorary Chair, Business Leaders Initiative
on Human Rights & The 2005
Business and Human Rights Seminar)
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Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Chief Prosecutor, International
Criminal Court)
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Peter Sutherland KCMG (Chairman of BP plc & Chairman
of Goldman Sachs International)
Participant
questions and discussion
10.45 Tea
& Coffee
11.15 Panel:
The various interpretations of legal and moral complicity
in a business context
Moderator:
Wilma Wallace (Associate General Counsel, Vice President
for Legal, Government & Environmental
Affairs, Gap Inc.)
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Nicholas Howen (Secretary General, International Commission
of Jurists)
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Irene Khan (Secretary General, Amnesty International)
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Paul Watchman (Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
Full
audience participation and discussion
12.45
Lunch
14.00
Interactive
session: Examining complicity and responsibility dilemmas
for business
Moderator:
Luke Wilde (Director, TwentyFifty Ltd)
Roundtable
discussion and feedback on three business dilemmas
On-stage
responses to the dilemmas from:
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Lise Kingo (Executive Vice President, People, Reputation
& Relations, Novo Nordisk A/S)
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Alan Detheridge (Vice President, External Affairs,
Exploration and Production, Shell International)
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Jorge Daniel Taillant (Executive Director, Center
for Human Rights and Environment, Argentina)
Full
audience discussion
15.40
Tea &
Coffee
15.50
The Way
Forward - The Mandate of the Special Representative
Moderator:
Jane Nelson (Director, Business Leadership and Strategy,
The Prince of Wales International
Business Leaders Forum)
Speaker:
Professor John Ruggie (Special Representative on the
Issue of Human Rights, Transnational
Corporations and Other Business Enterprises)
Full
room discussion
16.15
Closing
remarks by Mary Robinson
16.30 Seminar
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