Events and Activities
Here you’ll find update on relevant Social Performance events, courses, webinars and activities.
Business and Human Rights Online Training
February, 24 2021
This online training focuses on the general international framework on the relation between business and human rights. In particular, it summarily explains standards, mechanisms, benefits and challenges in the current set up, especially at the United Nations and regional level. Specific attention will be paid to the UN Guiding Principles, the UN Global Compact, and other recent initiatives, examples and practice. There is also dedicated to specific themes of pressing value: the protection of human rights defenders working on business-related abuses; the case-law emerging from recent developments; corporate responsibility to respect human rights and the development of legislation on mandatory due diligence; the challenges of intersectionality and in particular the situation of children caught up in the worst forms of child labour. In so doing, the course analyses the links with the international framework and provides examples from different regional areas.
Webinars Recording of Impact 2020 - Learn from Centre of Social Impact (Australia)
April, May, June 2020
The Centre for Social Impact is a collaboration of three universities: UNSW Sydney, Swinburne University of Technology, The University of Western Australia.
The organisation believes in transformational research and education that is rigorous and purpose-driven, working with people, communities and organisations to grow their capabilities through research, education, and leadership development.
Risk Mitigation in Community Engagement
July 9, 2020
Under the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) in Malaysia, people can travel across states for work and domestic tourism starting from June 10 to August 31. Freelance journalists, media organisations and CSOs will be resuming their work
especially involving field reporting/media coverage and assessments during this period. To prepare for this increase in interstate movement as well as community engagement and interaction in the upcoming months, this topic will be relevant to ensure that journalists do not contribute to further spreading Covid-19 when gathering information from local communities – especially remote and vulnerable groups.
The webinar will feature Redmond “Red” Batario - Security Trainer, a former journalist and currently Executive Director of the Center for Community Journalism in the Philippines and Odina “Dana” Batnag - a journalist, human rights activist and lawyer from the Philippines and will be moderated by Nadiah Rosli from Internews in Malaysia.”
Human Rights Due Diligence - The Essential
August 25, 2020 (Online Course)
Want to learn the basics and the essentials about human rights due diligence? Whether you are just starting off or you want to take the next steps in your work, this is the course for you. In this highly interactive one-day virtual training we will walk you through what you need to know about human rights due diligence – in other words, all you need to know to get started and advance in your human rights due diligence work
Protecting workers’ rights through the COVID-19 crisis
June 7, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted the lives of workers across sectors and geographies. It has put an emphasis on the vulnerability and precariousness of the employment status of some workers and has also exposed, in many cases, the lack of adequate safeguards necessary to protect workers and their rights in times of crisis. During this webinar, we will explore the range of risks different categories of workers have been exposed since the beginning of the pandemic and address how investors can contribute to ensuring jobs, workers and their rights are protected and respected in the midst of the crisis. We will also discuss how these considerations might help anticipate longer-term risks, inform and help shape investor action around job and workers’ protection for the long-term recovery.
WEBINAR - Business and Human Rights: Toolbox for Human Rights Defenders
June 15, 2020
The current COVID 19 context is presenting new challenges and threats for land and environmental rights defenders. From killings of defenders, the abuse of emergency measures to government restrictions on their movements. Communities impacted by negative corporate human rights practices are seeing an increase in the number of licenses being granted to companies as well as companies lobbying for loosened regulations.