Taiwan Business and Human Rights Forum A satellite event at RightsCon, 24 February 2025 RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age and will be held for the first time in Taiwan from February 24-27, 2025.

Each year, RightsCon convenes business leaders, policy makers, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.

To highlight the central role of Taiwan businesses in support of Taiwan’s economic diplomacy, a Business & Human Rights Forum (“Taiwan BHR Forum”) will be held on February 24 as a satellite event at RightsCon. The Forum aims to support Taiwan’s recent efforts to improve laws and policies on business & human rights, including the consideration of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) for Taiwanese companies.

The Taiwan BHR Forum will convene Taiwanese and global businesses, industry groups, government policymakers, impacted communities, civil society organizations, and Taiwanese and international experts.

Draft Agenda

9:00 Business & Human Rights Policy in Taiwan

Moderator: Edwin Rekosh, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Rights CoLab

• Ming-Hsin Lin, Taiwan Minister without Portfolio
• Christoph Saurenbach, Head of Trade Section, EU Office in Taiwan
• Bart Devos, Vice President of Public Policy, Responsible Business Alliance (to be confirmed)
• Vincent Shih, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft
• Hsin-Hsuan Sun, Director of Corporate Accountability & International Affairs, Environmental Rights Foundation

11:00 The Human Rights and Environmental Risks to Business and Affected Communities Moderator: Representative of Taiwan Transnational Corporations Watch

• Allison Lee, Co-founder and the Secretary General,
• Yilan Migrant Fishermen Union
• Affected Community Representatives (Migrant workers, Local Community)
• Shelly Han, Executive Vice President, Fair Labor Association (FLA)
• Jen Herink, Senior Manager, Human Rights, Microsoft 12:30 Lunch break

12:30 Lunch break 13:30 Best Practices on Implementing Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

Moderator: Joanne Bauer, Co-Founder, Rights CoLab

• Representative of Wistron
• Alex Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google (to be confirmed)
• Mille Bugge, Investment Stewardship Analyst, Norges Bank Investment Management (to be confirmed)
• Jessica Wan, Social Lead, Redwheel 15:00

15:00 Closing