Name: UN BHR Forum Geneva Side Event
Start: 2025-11-25T02:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-25T04:00:00+01:00
Location: United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

"Rebalancing Power: Centering Workers in Global Business and Human Rights" - Event Registration
Join China Labor Watch in this roundtable - "Rebalancing Power: Centering Workers in Global Business and Human Rights" - taking place alongside this year's United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. Please fill out the form below to register for the event, we will follow-up with registrants to confirm attendance closer to the event date. Breakfast will be provided.
Event details:
Date and time: Tuesday, November 25th, 2025, 8am - 10am
Location: The location is 10-15 minutes walk from the Forum, and the exact location will be shared with confirmed participants at a later date.
Confirmed Speakers:
Áine Clarke, Co-Head Labour Rights in Supply Chains & Investor Strategy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Andy Hall, independent migrant worker rights specialist focusing on global supply chain linked abuses in Malaysia and Thailand
Joseph Wilde-Ramsing, Advocacy Director, SOMO - The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Richa Mittal, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Fair Labor Association
Li Qiang, Executive Director, China Labor Watch
Outline: One of the most urgent challenges in the global effort to advance business and human rights commitments is the structural imbalance between corporate responsibility mechanisms and the limited voice of workers. Although the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) emphasize corporate accountability, their implementation largely relies on voluntary participation by companies, lacking enforceable obligations. At the same time, workers in developing countries face significant barriers to organizing, have limited access to international resources, and are often excluded from multi-stakeholder processes. International attention and funding tend to favor business-involved initiatives, while very few resources are allocated to worker-centered programs. This imbalance deepens labor exploitation in the Global South and contributes to the erosion of labor standards even in developed countries. The session aims to explore how this inequality undermines global progress and to propose more equitable, worker-centered approaches for effective human rights governance.
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