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NATIONAL & GLOBAL FORUMS

Issara's annual Global Forum is a three-day multi-stakeholder forum convening workers, leaders, and innovators in the field of ethical supply chains to critically analyse current practices and approaches to addressing labour exploitation and human trafficking in global supply chains. The forum aims to build understanding and consensus around the most promising and proven approaches that should be promoted, encouraged, and invested in over the next several years.

The Issara Global Forum is convened in November each year, then national multi-stakeholder meetings are convened periodically through the year to maintain momentum, focus, and solidarity on local conversations and collaborations aiming to advance more ethical sourcing and recruitment.

ISSARA GLOBAL FORUM

BANGKOK, THAILAND

8-10 NOVEMBER 2023

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AGENDA outline 2023

Worker-led films, speed networking, and meet-ups will occur throughout the three-day event to help connect you to the people, organizations, and information you are interested in!

Booths and marketplaces for organizations, tech, research, and even a bit of shopping will be available over the three days as well.

The theme this year focuses on partnership and innovation. If you are interested in organizing or presenting on a panel, or setting up a booth, please have a look at the agenda outline below and contact Issara at globalforum@issarainstitute.org with your ideas!

See you there!

day 1

LEADING WITH WORKER VOICES: POLICY & PARTNERSHIP IN PURSUIT OF ETHICAL SUPPLY CHAINS

  • Opening worker-led film, with discussants from the worker community

  • Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) and the changing legislative landscape: Pathways and obstacles to shifting focus from risk to business to risk to workers and rights holders

  • Highlighting the dynamics and effectiveness of public-private partnerships: examining emerging models at the grassroots, cross-border, and industry/commodity level

day 2

LEADING WITH DATA: EMERGING DATA & TECH THAT MAKE WORKERS' LIVES BETTER

  • What's really working? Reviewing the evidence and the politics behind good (and bad) practice in ethical supply chains

  • Worker voice: What is on the market, who is running it, and implications for worker power

  • Future thinking sessions and primers

  • Case studies, tech lightning rounds, and a tech marketplace

day 3

RESPONSIBLE RECRUITMENT IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS: EMERGING MODELS, LESSONS LEARNED

  • Ethical recruitment from policy to practice: Evidence from Asian supply chains, 2019-2023

  • Who should be paying back excessive or unallowed recruitment fees charged to workers? A debate

  • Supply chain engagement down to the first mile of labour recruitment: examining promising models of preventing exploitative recruitment, and pathways to broader engagement by business

  • Collective engagements, emerging technologies, and other innovative approaches to responsible recruitment

issara global forums 2017-2019

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