The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) will be organising a side-event at the 3rd UN Forum on Business and Human Rights on 3 December 2014 (11:30 am – 1:00 pm). The UN Forum will take place on 1-3 December 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland.
This side-event, Regional Implementation of the Guiding Principles: Lessons from Asia and Europe,is drawn from the discussions of the 14th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights: Human Rights and Businesses, which took place on 18-20 November 2014 in Hanoi, Viet Nam.
The objectives of the Geneva side-event are 2-fold. First, to provide the current state-of-play on the advances made across Asia and Europe to promote the UN Guiding Principles. Second, to exchange best practices for promoting multi-stakeholder cooperation on business and human rights, both within and between the two regions.