Join FLA at the 15th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

From November 23 – 25, 2026, join the Fair Labor Association at the 15^th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Don’t miss our plenary session on effective stakeholder engagement, where we’ll share how our award-winning Harvesting the Future program effectively addresses human and labor rights risks in agricultural supply chains.

We’ll also be discussing how companies can navigate evolving HRDD regulations; opportunities for companies, civil society, worker representatives, industry associations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives can strengthen collaboration; responsible sourcing of recycled materials; how organizations can make stakeholder engagement truly meaningful; and details on both new and existing initiatives, including the Fair Labor Association Investor Roundtable and Crafting the Future.

Monday, November 23

Networking Lunch: Crafting the Future in Italy (by invitation only)

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Join FLA staff to learn more about the new Crafting the Future initiative, designed to enable individual and collective action to improve human rights due diligence in luxury goods and protect the “Made in Italy” label. It will drive multi-level reforms to address sourcing risks, with a focus on responsible recruitment, improving employment practices, and enhancing working conditions across supply chains, especially for migrant workers, who are more exposed to potential abuse and vulnerabilities.

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Workshop on Scaling Collaborative Actions: Fair Labor Association Investor Roundtable (by invitation only)

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Building on investors’ experience engaging companies on human rights issues and drawing on FLA’s expertise on labor standards across global value chains, FLAIR strengthens dialogue between investors and companies on human rights due diligence. The structured platform fosters informed dialogue, promotes better understanding of value-chain impacts, and supports the implementation of robust human rights due diligence practices.

The workshop will be led by FLA Director, Innovation Maxime Belingheri.

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Tuesday, November 24

Global Approaches to Forced Labor Enforcement and Compliance

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Permanent Mission of Canada in Geneva, Av. de l’Ariana 5

As forced labor enforcement becomes a global trade priority, how are regulators, corporates, and commercial lawyers operationalizing the ILO’s Forced Labor Indicators?

FLA Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer Richa Mittal joins panelists from the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association and the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights to discuss key issues facing the field: are the ILO Forced Labor Indicators fit for purpose? What are the comparative strengths of the EU market ban on forced labor compared to North American and other emerging forced labor import bans? Are trade measures well suited to advance global forced labor prevention, mitigation and remediation efforts?

Registration link forthcoming.

From Due Diligence to Actions: Responsible sourcing of recycled materials in practice

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Av. de la Paix 17

This event brings together stakeholders across the value chain to share practical lessons and explore what it takes to identify and address human rights risks in the informal waste sector, strengthen worker protections, implement meaningful mitigation measures, and build responsible sourcing practices that work for both people and business in an era of mandatory human rights due diligence.

FLA Vice President Burcu Kugu joins AIM-Progress, The Circulate Initiative, Shift, and others for a fireside chat on how to scale efforts in the recycling sector through the Responsible Sourcing Evaluation Model.

Translating Regulation into Results: How companies can leverage new regulations to manage human rights risks

7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Hotel Intercontinental, 7–9 Chemin du Petit-Saconnex

As companies navigate an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving global regulatory landscape, the challenge is not simply understanding new requirements, but also translating them into effective approaches to managing human rights risks across global operations and value chains.

Join the Fair Labor Association Executive Vice President and Chief of Policy Shelly Han, Pillar Two, and the Consumer Goods Forum for a short, highly interactive discussion bringing together in-house practitioners and other stakeholders for a practical, experience-based conversation on how companies are navigating these challenges in practice.

A light dinner will be served.

Wednesday, November 25

Beyond Company Boundaries: Lessons from 20 years of collaborative actions in a challenging world

7:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Fair Labor Association, 6^th floor Nations Business Center, Rue du Pré-de-la-Bichette 1

Join FLA Vice President, Innovation Burcu Kuğu, AIM-Progress, the Consumer Goods Forum Human Rights Coalition, Ethical Trading Initiative, and other organizations to explore how companies, civil society, worker representatives, industry associations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives can strengthen collaboration in an increasingly challenging operating environment. The session will examine how organizations are responding to pressure on civil society, reduced funding, climate-related risks, and other cross-border challenges that cannot be addressed effectively by a single organization or within one country. It will focus on practical models for pooling resources, coordinating action, supporting affected stakeholders and sustaining effective human rights responses.

Making Stakeholder Engagement Meaningful: From lessons to impact

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fair Labor Association, 6^th floor Nations Business Center, Rue du Pré-de-la-Bichette 1

Due diligence is credible when rightsholders can influence the decisions that affect them. This session looks at what that takes: the conditions needed for dialogue to be meaningful, inclusive and durable, and what it delivers when rightsholders have genuine influence.

Join the Fair Labor Association, CNV Internationaal, the Ethical Trading Initiative, Fairtrade International, Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement Alliance (AIM-Progress, amfori, Ethical Trade Sweden, Ethical Trading Initiative, Food Network for Ethical Trade), Oxfam, Proforest, and the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands to examine how stakeholder engagement supports, and never substitutes for, freedom of association and collective bargaining for workers; how free, prior, and informed consent applies for indigenous peoples; and what both mean in practice for effective HREDD.

WEOG Regional Session: Meaningful stakeholder engagement for effective HRDD and accountability

3:00 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.
Tempus, Palais des Nations

Join FLA, the Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Australian Human Rights Institute UNSW, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights to reflect on how programs and policies to implement the UNGPs designed with stakeholder engagement at their heart can bring about positive human rights change.

Through case studies, presenters will demonstrate what effective stakeholder engagement looks like in practice, and that moving stakeholder interaction along a continuum from token consultation to meaningful engagement requires it to be early, sustained, collective, inclusive, two-way, and linked to accountability and involve business, government, civil society, and workers.

FLA Executive Vice President Richa Mittal will share the award-winning Harvesting the Future initiative in rose supply chains in Türkiye as an example of how multi-stakeholder collaboration can effectively address human and labor rights risks in agricultural supply chains.