The West Virginia University Festival of Ideas in conjunction with the West Virginia University College of Law invites the submission of papers and abstracts for its conference entitled Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back, which will take place Sept. 23-24, 2013.
The conference will examine the United Nations recent work on business and human rights issues, an area that has grown substantially in the last ten years. Highlights of the subjects growth include the United Nations establishment of a Working Group on Business and Human Rights and its adoption of the Guiding Principles for business and human rights. Participants will use these two major events as a focal point for discussing the roles that corporations, civil society and states can all play in advancing the cause of human rights.
The call for papers is here. The submission deadline for papers or detailed abstracts is June 1, 2013.
The organizers are also accepting abstracts for a student poster session. The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is Aug. 15, 2013.
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