Event Date: September 15, 2011 - 5:30 pm
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 4004

JOHN RUGGIE, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights (2005 -2011).

Presented by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and CIPS.
Free. In English.

Seating is limited. Registration is required.

John Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.  From 1997 to 2001 he served as U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning. From 2005 to 2011, he was the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights. Following an extensive consultation process he presented to the UN Human Rights Council a set of “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights“, which were unanimously endorsed by the Council in June 2011. His take will address the challenges of ensuring that the obligations emerging from these principles are acted upon – both by governments and by the private sector.

[audio: http://web20.uottawa.ca/academic/socialsciences/cepi-cips/Ruggie_20110915.mp3]