We are delighted
to invite you to the launch of the Australian Centre
for Corporate Social Responsibility’s Sydney
CSR Connect.ed Network, a group of CSR professionals
who want to network with their peers to identify tomorrow’s
CSR issues - today.
ACCSR is Australia’s leading provider of specialist
executive learning programs in corporate social responsibility.
Our Learning Program participants have asked for an
informal networking group where they can continue to
meet, exchange ideas and discover more about corporate
social responsibility.
CSR Connect.ed will enable
our participants to stay connected and keep learning
in an informal manner.
After a successful launch of our learning network in
Melbourne earlier in 2006, ACCSR presents one of the
world’s leading authorities on human rights and
business, Professor David Kinley, who will discuss The
United Nations’ Draft Human Rights Norms for Corporations and
its potential impact on Australian corporations.
| DATE |
Wednesday, 27 September
2006 |
| TIME |
5.30 PM to 7.30
PM |
| VENUE |
Westpac Place
275 Kent Street
Sydney NSW
Light Refreshments and Drinks
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SPECIAL
GUEST SPEAKER |
Professor David Kinley
Chair in
Human Rights Law at Sydney University
The Inside Story on the UN's Draft
Human Rights Norms for Corporations: Should Business
be Worried? |
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| HOSTED
BY |
Dr. Noel Purcell
General
Manager, Stakeholder Communications, Westpac |
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RSVP
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Rebecca Jones at ACCSR
by Monday 25 September, 2006
T: 03 9576
1694
E: rebeccajones@accsr.com.au
RSVP required - places
are limited! |
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ABOUT
Prof. David Kinley
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Author/editor of five books,
as well as one of the most widely cited pieces
on human rights and corporations published in the
US, David Kinley has worked for more than 10 years
as a consultant, adviser and with the United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights
Institutions, the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade, AusAID, the World Bank, the
Australian Law Reform Commission, the Australian
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission,
the Ford Foundation, as well as numerous transnational
corporations.
Professor Kinley was Professor and founding Director
of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at
Monash University in Melbourne; he held his first
teaching position at Cambridge University. Thereafter
he held positions at the Australian National University,
and the University of New South Wales, as well
as Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of
Edinburgh and Hong Kong and Washington College
of Law, American University, in Washington DC. |
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MEET
participants in
The Diplomacy
Training Program
(DTP)
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Coinciding with our CSR Connect.ed
launch, Westpac is hosting the Diplomacy Training
Program (DTP), a human rights NGO running a training
course in Sydney for NGO leaders from the Asia
Pacific Region. You will have an opportunity to
network with DTP participants prior to Professor
Kinley’s address.
Founded in 1989 by Professor Jose Ramos-Horta,
Prime Minister of East Timor and 1996 Nobel Peace
Laureate, the DTP is an independent NGO providing
human rights education, which seeks to advance
human rights and empower civil society in the
Asia Pacific region through quality education
and training, and the building of skills and
capacity in NGOs. |
ACCSR wishes to acknowledge
the generous support of Westpac Banking Corporation in
the launch of the Sydney CSR Connect.ed Network.
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