IBA Annual Conference Rome 2018
7 Oct - 12 Oct 2018
Session Room L, Level -1
Session information
Business, human rights and poverty: strategic advantages and a lawyer's personal responsibility
Wednesday 10 October (1430 - 1545)
Session Room L, Level -1
Committee(s)
Poverty and Social Development Committee
(Lead)
Business Human Rights Committee
Crimes Against Women Subcommittee
Law Firm Management Committee
Description
The session will address specific actions that all components of the legal profession can take towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 1: the eradication of poverty. First, it will show how certain business activities impact society, often influencing the extent of poverty in the region where they operate. The session will address specifically how can lawyers support and promote business activity that helps to mitigate poverty. Furthermore, the session will describe and analyse proactive, change-orientated business, human rights and poverty relief initiatives as an ethical imperative for lawyers. Concrete examples will be provided where the legal profession’s engagement can assist corporations in order to protect, respect and remedy human rights. Each topic will provide the basis for a chapter in the subcommittee’s new book on the practical ways the legal profession can mitigate poverty and build capability
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Norman Clark | Walker Clark, Fort Myers, Florida, USA; Member, Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee Advisory Board |
| Professor Neil Gold | Neil Gold, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Co-Chair, Poverty and Social Development Committee |
| Carmen Pombo | Fernando Pombo Foundation, Madrid, Spain; Co-Chair, Rule of Law Forum |
Speakers
| Robert Heslett CBE | The Law Society of England & Wales, London, England; IBA Council MemberLaw Society of England and Wales |
| Tahera Mandviwala | The Bar Council of India, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Sternford Moyo | Scanlen & Holderness, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Professor Luz Nagle | Stetson University College of Law, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA; Co-Chair, Crimes Against Women Subcommittee |