Monday, 14 September 2026

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11:30–12:30  UNRBHR 2026 Opening Plenary

Plenary  ·  Room ESCAP

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13:15–14:15  From Protection to Power: Strengthening Indigenous governance and community-led remedy in Asia

Panel  ·  Room CR1

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13:15–14:15  Resilience Under Pressure: What Must Hold, What Must Change?

Panel  ·  Room CR3

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13:15–14:00  Women Workers Organizing to End Gender Based Violence & Harassment (GBVH) in Garment Global Supply Chains

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4

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14:45–16:15  B+HR Asia Exchange Café: Learning and Practice

B+HR Asia Exchange Café: Learning and Practice  ·  Room CR1

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14:45–15:45  Remedies and Fee Repayment for Migrant Workers

Panel  ·  Room CR3

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14:45–15:15  Building Collaboration between Market and States in Advancing the Responsible Seafood Supply Chain in Asia

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4

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14:45–15:45  Adverse Climate Events and Human Rights Impact: Rethinking Resilient Supply Chains

Panel  ·  Room MRH

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15:30–16:15  No Resilience Without Rights: Protecting Homeworkers through Human Rights Due Diligence and Supply Chain Governance

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4

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16:30–17:30  From NAPs to Mandatory Due Diligence: Are We Closer to Achieving the Smart Mix of Measures in the Asia-Pacific?

Panel  ·  Room CR1

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16:30–17:30  Beyond the Headlines: What AI really means for the world of work

Panel  ·  Room CR3

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16:30–17:15  Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration and Co-Learning: Evaluating the effectiveness of a third-party grievance mechanism in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment sector

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4

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16:30–17:30  Responsible Purchasing Practices for Resilient Supply Chains: From shared principles to practical action

Panel  ·  Room MRA

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Tuesday, 15 September 2026

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09:00–10:00  Aligning Trade and Investment Policies with Labour Clauses and Labour Rights: Strengthening capacity, enforcement and social dialogue

Panel  ·  Room CR2

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09:00–10:00  Who Holds the Power? Advancing a rights-based and community-led just transition across Asia-Pacific

Panel  ·  Room CR3

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09:00–09:30  Building Resilience Through Inclusive Tourism: Advancing Stakeholder Participation and Sustainable Businesses

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

09:00–09:45  Beyond Green Metrics: Advancing social and digital dimensions of responsible business conduct under China’s National Human Rights Action Plan

Policy Lab  ·  Room MRA
 

10:30–11:30  Strengthening Access to Remedy in the Financial Sector Amid Global Turbulence

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

10:30–11:30  From Bans for Products to Impacts for People: Can forced labour import bans deliver meaningful change for workers?

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

10:30–11:00  Collaboration for Impact: How companies are advancing human rights in the palm oil sector

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

10:30–12:00  B+HR Asia Exchange Café: Community and Trust

B+HR Asia Exchange Café: Community and Trust  ·  Room MRA
 

11:15–12:00  The Hidden Cost of Everyday Buying: A shrimp case study on human rights risks in supply chains

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

11:15–12:00  Left Behind: Why resilience in business and human rights must start with those most harmed

Deep Dive  ·  Room MRH
 

13:00–14:00  Embedding Human Rights Safeguards in AI Product Design, Development and Deployment: Taking a child rights-based approach

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

13:00–14:00  The Ethical Recruitment Marketplace: Creating sustainable and viable business models for ethical recruitment

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

13:00–13:30  Integrating Anti-Corruption into HRDD for Stronger Governance and Supply Chain Resilience

Spotlight  ·  Room MRA
 

14:15–15:15  Making Mandatory Sustainability Disclosure Work for Children’s Rights

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

14:15–15:15  From Invisible to Invaluable: Reuse, recovery and the workers holding circularity together

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

14:15–14:45  Building Resilient Sugarcane Supply Chains: Advancing Human Rights, Decent Work, and Responsible Recruitment in Asia

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

14:15–15:15  From Compliance to Resilience: Building human rights due diligence into business and supply chains across Asia

Panel  ·  Room MRA
 

14:15–15:15  Global Electronics Supply Chains and Women Workers’ Voices: Special screening of “Women Workers from Vietnam”

Film Screening  ·  Room Theater
 

15:45–16:45  Remedying Harm to People and the Planet: What works, what fails, and why

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

15:45–16:30  From Commitment to Credibility: Measuring living wage gaps for resilient supply chains

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR3
 

15:45–16:15  Beyond Monitoring: Child labour, youth workers, women’s economic empowerment and family-friendly workplaces, a child and women’s rights approach to supply chain resilience

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

15:45–16:45  Resilience Across Borders: How Women Reclaim Their Space

Panel  ·  Room MRA
 

15:45–17:15  The Hidden Roots of Harm: Mapping Power and Vulnerability for Effective HRDD

Workshop  ·  Room MRH
 

17:00–18:00  Accountability for Unsustainable Development: Feminist and frontline justice pathways in Asia for the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

17:00–17:45  Building Shared Approaches to Labour Data for Effective Human Rights Due Diligence

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

17:00–17:30  Investor Treaty Arbitration: The Accountability Gap-Regulatory Sovereignty, and Communities Left Out of the Room

Spotlight  ·  Room MRA
 

Wednesday, 16 September 2026
 

09:00–10:00  Rising Together: Inclusive procurement as an untapped lever for competitive and resilient supply chains in the Asia-Pacific

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

09:00–09:45  Heat Mitigation as a Human Right: Effective interventions centering the lived experience of garment workers

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR3
 

09:00–09:45  Independent, CSO-Led and Global Supply Chain-Anchored Non-State Based Grievance Mechanisms: Building synergies for advancing decent work in India and Asia

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

09:00–10:30  B+HR Asia Exchange Café: Innovation and Solutions

B+HR Asia Exchange Café: Innovation and Solutions  ·  Room MRA
 

10:00–10:30  Advancing Responsible and Sustainable Aquaculture for Resilient Supply Chains: Examples from the ASEAN Seaweed and Shrimp Industries

Spotlight  ·  Room CR3
 

10:00–10:30  Compliance with Japan’s New Migrant Workers Act: Transparency in Recruitment Fees

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

11:00–12:00  Realising a Just Transition: Closing the gap between corporate ambition and contextual realities

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

11:00–11:45  Invisible Compensation, Responsible Sponsorship: Advancing fair employer responsibility for migrant workers

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR3
 

13:00–14:00  Closing Gaps in Accountability and Protection: Gender-responsive solutions from women workers in supply chains

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

13:00–14:00  Towards a Rights-Respecting Energy Transition: Enforcing FPIC in critical mineral mining in Asia

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

13:00–13:45  Protecting Workers, Respecting Families, Enabling Remedy: The role of business

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

13:00–14:00  From Commitments to Accountability: Implementing mandatory human rights due diligence

Panel  ·  Room MRA
 

14:15–15:15  Building Ethical Recruitment Together: Shared responsibility across complex recruitment ecosystems

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

14:15–15:15  Organizing Beyond the Factory Gate: Community-based monitoring, worker voice and access to remedy in garment supply chains

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

14:15–15:00  Beyond the Audit Report: Strengthening competent social audits within worker-centred HRDD

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

14:15–14:45  Beyond Tier 1: Making human rights due diligence work in informal recycling value chains

Spotlight  ·  Room MRA
 

15:45–16:45  Pilot Lessons from Operationalizing FPIC and Grievance Redress with Agribusinesses in Rural Laos

Panel  ·  Room CR2
 

15:45–16:45  Building Trust and Collective Action to Improve Worker Rights in Southeast Asia

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

15:45–16:15  Realizing Inclusive Employment: Overcoming communication barriers, ensuring participation, and enhancing legal protection for deaf workers in Indonesia

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

15:45–16:30  Whose Sustainability? Implementing EU supply chain due diligence from Global South perspectives

Deep Dive  ·  Room MRA
 

Thursday, 17 September 2026
 

09:00–09:45  Platform Power, Consumer Rights, and Corporate Accountability in Asia-Pacific: Advancing UNGPs in the digital economy

Policy Lab  ·  Room CR4
 

09:00–10:00  Rare Earth and ‘Critical’ Mineral Extraction: From devastation to collective responses locally, regionally and beyond

Panel  ·  Room MRA
 

09:00–09:45  From Compliance to Competitiveness: How Bangladesh's apparel industry is building a responsible business ecosystem through data, collaboration and transparency

Deep Dive  ·  Room MRG
 

10:00–10:30  Invisible Care: Intergrating the care economy into responsible business supply chains

Spotlight  ·  Room CR4
 

10:00–10:30  Forced, Tricked or Trapped" to "Seen, Safe, Supported": A healthcare-led, survivor-centred model for identifiying and responding to modern slavery

Spotlight  ·  Room MRG
 

11:00–12:00  From Worker Voice to Action: Turning worker engagement into better human rights decisions

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

11:00–11:45  From Participation to Power: Building resilient cocoa communities

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

11:00–11:30  Enhancing Responsible Supply Chains in Asia: From contracts to remedies

Spotlight  ·  Room MRA
 

11:00–12:00  From Risk to Opportunity: How Can We Unlock the Potential of Labour Migration for Workers, Businesses and Labour Markets?

Panel  ·  Room MRH
 

13:00–14:00  Collaborative and Worker-Centred Human Rights Due Diligence for More Resilient Markets and Supply Chains

Panel  ·  Room CR3
 

13:00–13:45  Responsible Mining: A Human Rights Due Diligence Model

Deep Dive  ·  Room CR4
 

13:00–13:45  Embedding Human Rights in Everyday Business: Conscious leadership, creative communication and SME resilience

Deep Dive  ·  Room MRA
 

14:30–15:30  Closing Plenary

Plenary  ·  Room CR4