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15 Apr 2009

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Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

[PDF] Side event at United Nations Durban Review Conference - “The workplace: Addressing racial discrimination & promoting diversity” [Geneva, 22 Apr]

Organizers: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Topic:...This event will focus on some of the practical challenges faced by companies in eliminating racial discrimination and promoting diversity in the workplace. Panelists: Moderator: Marcia Kran, Director, Research and Right to Development Division, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Representative of the International Labour Organization working on these issues (TBD); - Selby Baqwa (Executive Director of Corporate Governance, Nedbank, South Africa); - Eric Dziedzic (Principal Specialist-Diversity, Strategy Development Unit, Novo Nordisk, Denmark); - Mandana Zarrehparvar (Director - Equal treatment and access to justice, Danish Institute for Human Rights); - Sukhvinder Singh (Head of Workplace Integration, Strategy-Policy Directorate, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Great Britain); - Abiola Okpechi (Anglophone Africa Researcher of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, South Africa); - Christopher Avery (Director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, United Kingdom). [All delegates accredited to the Review Conference are welcome to attend]