Araminta and Rights CoLab are pleased to announce a call for participants in a pilot capacity-building initiative focused on business and human rights (BHR) and corporate accountability, aimed at Russian human rights defenders in exile.
Are you a human rights defender with a legal, journalism, or activism background? Are you interested in expanding your knowledge on business and human rights through comprehensive training and a paid research opportunity?
*The funder has enabled applicants from Russia to participate free of charge. Applicants from other backgrounds will be considered but will need to pay their own costs. If you have questions about your eligibility for free participation or about costs, please write to: info@araminta-advisers.eu.
**Not all participants in the training will be selected to proceed to the research phase. Participation in the training is possible without further participation in the research phase of the project.
English is the working language of the training program and all accompanying materials.
A human rights specialist for over thirty years, Joanne was an early pioneer of business and human rights. After launching Human Rights Dialogue (1997-2005) during her tenure as Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, she helped build the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (2006-2011), which included directing the Resource Centre’s Asia program and overseeing its expansion. Since 2008, Bauer has taught business and human rights at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she also founded and directed the SIPA Business and Human Rights Clinic (2015-2019). In 2010, as Director of the Business and Human Rights Program at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, she co-founded the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum, a global network of over 450 professors of business and human rights in 40 countries.
Shauna is founder of Just Ground, a research and advocacy project that aims to advance the visions of communities working to address corporate activity that threatens or violates their human rights. She is a lawyer, researcher, and strategist with over 15 years of experience collaborating on human and civil rights advocacy projects with grassroots activists, community-based organizations, and international NGOs. Most recently, she served as associate general counsel for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, creators of the Fair Food Program, and before that as a human rights analyst for the Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association International Human Rights Committee.
