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@BIICL & @UCPH conference on Human Rights Due Diligence & Systemic Inequalities is happening now. #bizhumanrights @siddhartesse @cepri_law @jura_ku

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@KMhumanrights: Must look at causes & effects. E.g. reasons for forced labour in a factory or mine. Can be climate crisis, result of land acquisition. #SystIneq21

@KMhumanrights The reality is that many of the violations are very much apparent & it doesn't or shouldn't take much HRDD to actually discover them. #bizhumanrights #SystIneq21

@manel_chibane Sullivan Principles one of the first #bizhumanrights mechanisms to address structural inequalities. #UNGPs don't focus on structure, they focus on impacts of business conducting activities. #SystIneq21

Michael Addo @UNDLondon #UNGPs are a starting point they are meant to be adopted & adjusted according to circumstances. There should be an elastic interpretation. #SystIneq21

Bonita Meyersfeld @WitsUniversity Inequality is a term that by necessity includes poverty. Job of those with power to listen to listen to those from whom they take power. Business doesn't have incentive to interrupt cycle of power. #SystIneq21

Rachel Davis @shiftproject Too often #HRDD reduced to just risk analysis without corrective action plans. Requires root cause analysis. As soon as you do that you find links to systemic inequalities. Long-term collaborative approaches necessary. #SystIeq21

Session 1 of our #HRDD & #SystIneq21 #conference focused on the #UNGPs and Systemic Inequalities. Our upcoming Session 2 is diving deeper into HRDD.

@ProfErikaGeorge Important to remember UNGPs' modest goals in relation to inequalities. #bizhumanrights #SystIneq21

@ProfErikaGeorge Private detention. Over-incarceration. Integration of UNGPs would involve looking at what states do to protect vulnerable populations. Must ensure no incentives to make populations vulnerable for business. Must be grievance mechanisms available. #SystIneq21

@BoniMeyersfeld Inequality is a term that by necessity includes poverty. Job of those with power to listen to listen to those from whom they take power. Business doesn't have incentive to interrupt cycle of power. #SystIneq21

@jamescsinclair Business needs to look at realities of supply chain. Grassroots perspective crucial. Applaud companies doing the right thing. Meaningfully punish those that are not. #bizhumanrights #SystIneq21

@danberezowsky Discrimination, vulnerability, & systemic inequalities are not in & of themselves #HumanRights risks. They are a lens through which we need to look at other risks. #BizHumanRights #SystIneq21

@hkaur0304 Important for States creating #BizHumanRights NAPs to identify contextual realities by conducting baseline studies to look at differential impacts of business within country and beyond. #SystIneq21

Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara: systemic legacies aren't just historical but have real entrenched implications. Intersectionality necessitates looking at dynamics that produced them + corporate structures. #BizHumanRights #SystIneq21

Barnali Choudhury @OsgoodeNews Int'l investment law privileges foreign investor rights over #HumanRights & #environment & so constrains govt'l ability to protect them. Inequalities often target of such HR/env. rules but investment rules prevail. #BizHumanRights #SystIneq21

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