Take action to cease, prevent or mitigate child labour risks and impacts

Join our third webinar of our four-part webinar series on Child Labour Due Diligence. 

This session will focus on how to take action to cease, prevent or mitigate child labour risks and impacts.

Highlights

• How to to cease, prevent or mitigate child labour risks and impacts – the view of the ILO/IOE Child Labour Guidance tool by Regula Meng from focusright
• The journey from no to child labour to yes to children’s rights at Marshalls, by Elaine Mitchel-Hill from Marshalls
• Cases of child labour risk mitigation presented by Ines Kaempfer, CEO and Mark Robertson, Senior Vice President from The Centre for Child Rights and Business
• Discussion about importance of collaborations with Sandra Groth and Claes Hamilton from Save the Children

The new child labour due diligence obligation needs to be applied for the first time in 2023. It requires Swiss companies to evaluate if their goods and services might be linked to child labour. If a risk is identified, companies need to trace back their supply chain, identify and manage risks of adverse impacts and report annually about the measures taken. ​

Target audience​

The webinar series is open to all representatives of Swiss companies and especially targeted at company representatives that are in charge of Human Rights and Children’s Rights questions in their companies. Representatives from the following functions will mostly benefit from the webinars: sustainability, compliance, legal, procurement, human resources, human rights, children’s rights, reporting.

Fee: Free of charge for all

Language: English

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More information on the webinar series can be found here.

This webinar is organized in cooperation with the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). It is part of measure 27 “Promote efforts to end all forms of child exploitation in supply chains” of the Swiss National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2020-2023. For more information, please refer to: www.nap-bhr.admin.ch/napbhr/en/home.html