Recording Available: ICCR Webinar on “Collaborative Actions to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil”

WEBINAR AGENDA
September 19, 2012

Goals:

• Educate ICCR members on the National PACT’s (Reporter Brasil, Ethos Institute, ILO Brasil, CPT) strategies and experience eradicating slave labor.
• Develop an effective partnership between ICCR and Brazilian civil society organizations on ways to strengthen the National PACT in the automotive sector.
• Apply ICCR’s Social Sustainability Resource Guide (SSRG) framework on multi-stakeholder engagements to change corporate behavior and measure impact on the eradication of slave labor in Brazil.

Agenda:
Introduction –David Schilling, ICCR program director     Moderator
Brief description of ICCR’s Social Sustainability Resource Guide framework—Nadira Narine, ICCR program director

PRESENTATIONS:

Topic	Presenter
Eradicating Slave Labor through the National PACT	Luiz Machado, program officer, International Labour Organization, Brasilia
Pig Iron Supply Chain: Focus on the Automotive Industry	Leonardo Sakamoto, chairman, Reporter Brasil
Role of CPT on the Ground	Brother Xavier Plassat, coordinator of Pastoral Land Commission’s National Campaign against Slaver Labour
ICCR Member Responses	Sr. Pat Daly, OP, executive director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment.  Adam Kanzer, managing director and general counsel, Domini Social Investments

Dialogue

Questions/comments to the presenters

• Discuss use of the Commitment by Multinational Companies Doing Business in Brazil to Participation in the Brazilian PACT for the Eradication of Slave Labour (May, 2011)
• Address the arguments companies have used to not sign the Commitment to the PACT

• Actions ICCR members can take to support the PACT

A recording of the Webinar can be accessed here and downloaded from the following link:

At the prompt please enter the following password :iccrbrazil2012

The Power Point presentation on public-private partnerships is available here.