Addressing Human Trafficking—Emerging Business and Human Rights Legal Risk Landscape

Ben Fouracre took part in a roundtable discussion on business and human rights around the anti-human trafficking theme. Panelists discussed what businesses can do to address human trafficking and other human rights risks and associated potential legal, financial, and reputational consequences. Topics included:

• Global business and human rights landscape: international standards and domestic regulatory developments
• Evolving legal risk landscape for failure to identify and manage human rights risks
• Developments in practice across sectors
• Anti-trafficking developments in Asia: what actions are required by business?
• Practical steps that can be taken by businesses to address human rights risks
• Tokyo 2020 human rights agenda
• Possible frameworks for collaboration: existing partnerships between non-governmental organizations, businesses, and other stakeholders