Business & Human Rights Accelerator

About this event

The idea of human rights is as simple as it is powerful: That all people have a right to be treated with dignity.

Business is about people. Directly or indirectly, businesses often impact the human rights of their employees and contract workers, workers in their supply chains, the communities around their operations and the end users of their products or services. Businesses impact virtually the entire spectrum of internationally recognized human rights.

As a result, companies have both a responsibility and an opportunity to advance human rights across their operations, supply chains and beyond. Is your company able to know and show that it supports and respects the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights, and that it is not complicit in human rights abuses?

The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating companies participating in the UN Global Compact across industries and regions. The objective is to help businesses swiftly move from commitment to action on human rights and labour rights through establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence process in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

As a participant in the Business and Human Rights Accelerator, you are expected to dedicate approximately 70-80 hours in total, covering all sessions (local and global), homework, and submission of the action plan.
Participants pay a fee of 10,000 DKK per company, which covers the entire accelerator programme, including in-person sessions co-hosted with a speaker from the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

For more information visit the global website.