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Event Location: WECC – Westhafen Event & Convention Center.

Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Moderator Conny Czymoch and Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Opening remarks by Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Opening remarks by Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Opening remarks by Udo Philipp, State Secretary,Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Hubertus Heil and Moderator Conny Czymoch.

Opening remarks by Udo Philipp, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Hubertus Heil and Moderator Conny Czymoch.

Opening remarks by Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Keynote by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Keynote by Olivier De Schutter, Professor of Law at University of Louvain, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

Thea Lee, Deputy Undersecretary, U.S.Department of Labor (USA) and Moderator Conny Czymoch at Panel I Discussion "Opportunities for a binding international standard on business and human rights" with G7 and EU.

Moderator Conny Czymoch with Anousheh Karvar, French Government Representative to the ILO, G7 and G20, Chair of Alliance 8.7 (France)  and Sandra Hassan, Deputy Minister of Labour and Associate Deputy Minister Employment and Social Development (Canada).

Moderator Conny Czymoch with Anousheh Karvar, French Government Representative to the ILO, G7 and G20, Chair of Alliance 8.7 (France).

Thea Lee, Deputy Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Labor (USA) and Lilian Tschan, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany) at Panel 1 Discussion "Opportunities for a binding international standard on business and human rights" with G7 and EU.

Panel 1 Discussion "Opportunities for a binding international standard on business and human rights" with G7 and EU.

Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice (EU).

Moderator Conny Czymoch with Rossella Accoto, State Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Italy), Ronan O’Connor, Deputy Director, Department for Work and Pensions (United Kingdom), Nobunao Tagaya, Senior Assistant Minister, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan) and Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice (EU).

Lilian Tschan, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany).

Intervention by Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation.

Intervention by Roberto Suárez Santos, Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers.

Intervention by Ana María Suárez Franco, Permanent Representative to the UN, FIAN International.

Lilian Tschan, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany).

 Carsten Stender, Director-General, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany).

Presentation by Prof. Anita Ramasastry, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights at Workshop I "Success factors for the acceptance of an internationally binding standard on business and human rights".

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London.

John H. Knox, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University, former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment.

Nicola Bonucci, Partner at Paul Hastings LLP, former OECD General Counsel.

Prof. Anita Ramasastry, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights moderating Workshop 1 "Success factors for the acceptance of an internationally binding standard on business and human rights".

Olivier De Schutter, Professor of Law at University of Louvain,UN Special Rapporteuron on extreme poverty and human rights and Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London.

Intervention by Ana María Suárez Franco, Permanent Representative to the UN, FIAN International.

Intervention by Nanda Bergstein, Director for Corporate Responsibility, Tchibo.

Intervention by Anousheh Karvar, French Government Representative to the ILO, G7 and G20, Chair of Alliance 8.7 (France).

Workshop 1: "Success factors for the acceptance of an internationally binding standard on business and human rights".

Conny Czymoch and Moderators of Workshop 2 "Effective tools for businesses to identify and avoid child and forced labour (cooperation with Alliance 8.7)": Caroline Rees, Shift and Michael Windfuhr, German Institute for Human Rights.

Moderator Conny Czymoch with Martha Newton, ILO Deputy Director-General and Lene Wendland, Chief of the Business and Human Rights Section Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Moderator Conny Czymoch  with Mathias Cormann, OECD Secretary-General.

Closing remarks by Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperationand Development.

Closing remarks by Carsten Stender, Director-General, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs  and Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development.