Joint Webinar on "Corporate Responsibility in Conflict-affected areas: Russian Invasion and Japanese Companies”
On Tuesday, December 19, 2023, JaCER, in cooperation with the Business and Human Rights Resource Center, co-hosted a webinar entitled " Corporate Responsibility in Conflict-affected areas: Russian Invasion and Japanese Companies “. The speakers were Ella Skybenko, Senior Researcher and Representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Business and Human Rights Resource Center, and Vladyslava Kaplina, a Research Assistant for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The main points of the presentations were as follows.
During the Q&A session, there was a lively discussion on such issues as how to respond to the diversion of general-purpose products sold and manufactured by Japanese companies into arms, the negative impact of economic sanctions on human rights, the scope of enhanced human rights due diligence that companies are required to conduct and how to effectively implement it, cases where companies have been held liable under international criminal law, and rationale when a company decides to withdraw from conflict-affected areas.
JaCER will continue to collaborate with experts and organizations to provide timely seminars and other opportunities to disseminate information on important events and themes related to business and human rights in order to effectively support remedies.