European Parliament
2019-2024
Committee on Legal Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights
INTERPARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE MEETING
Corporate responsibility for serious human rights abuses in
third countries
Tuesday, 21 April 2022, 13:45 - 16:15
European Parliament, Brussels
Room Spaak 3C50
13:45 - 13:50
Welcome and opening remarks by
- Maria ARENA, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights
- Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA, Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs
Keynote
Presentation of the Commission proposal for a directive on corporate
sustainability due diligence
by
Didier Reynders,
Commissioner for Justice,
European Commission
Panel
Presentation of the expert briefing requested by DROI, by
Claire Methven
O'BRIEN
and
Olga MARTIN ORTEGA
Kalpona AKTER,
the founder and executive director of the Bangladesh Center for
Workers Solidarity and the winner of the Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges
award for Extraordinary Activism in 2016
Speaker TBC
Debate with MEPs and Members of EU National Parliaments
First speakers:
- Lara WOLTERS, JURI Rapporteur
- Raphael GLUCKSMANN, DROI Rapporteur
- Bernd LANGE, INTA Chair
The meeting is organised with the support of the Directorate for Relations with National Parliaments.