Agenda

09:00-11:00 GMT+2  |  Baobab Hall

HIGH-LEVEL OPENING PLENARY
From Commitment to Action: Advancing Remedy, Reparations and Responsible Business Conduct in Africa

Session partners: ABHR Forum organizers

11:30-12:50 GMT+2  |  Mupani 1 Hall

Indigenous Caucus

Session partner: UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples

11:30-12:50 GMT+2  |  Baobab Hall

CIVIL SOCIETY SESSION
Promoting Corporate Accountability Legislation in Africa: Moving from Voluntary Standards to Binding Laws

Session partner: African Coalition for Corporate Accountability

11:30-12:50 GMT+2  |  Amalila Hall

BUSINESS CAUCUS
Companies’ Experiences in Enabling Access to Remedy and Remediation in Africa: Best practices and challenges

Session partners: International Organisation of Employers and UN Global Compact

11:30-12:50 GMT+2  |  Mupani 2 Hall

Documenting and Responding to Attacks: Addressing gaps and strengthening protection of human rights defenders in Africa 

Session partners: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Natural Justice, Alliance for Land, Indigenous, and Environmental Defenders

14:00-15:20 GMT+2  |  Amalila Hall

Multi-Stakeholder Approach to the Development and Implementation of National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights: Experiences from East Africa 

Session partner: The Belgian Agency for International Cooperation - Enabel and the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development in Uganda

14:00-15:20 GMT+2  |  Mupani 2 Hall

Navigating Emerging Remedy Pathways: Policies, practices, and tools to address human rights issues and support rightsholders in Africa

Session partners: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and Arche Advisors

14:00-15:20 GMT+2  |  Baobab Hall

Consultation on the 2026 report to the Human Rights Council on “Agri-business, food security and human rights

Session partner: UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

14:00-15:20 GMT+2  |  Mupani 1 Hall

Poster Presentations on Access to Remedy in Transitional Minerals

Session partner: Danish Institute for Human Rights, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation, HakiRasilimali, Afrewatch, Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ)

15:40-17:00 GMT+2  |  Baobab Hall

From Plans to Practice: South–South Reflections on Implementing National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights

Session partner: UN Development Programme

15:40-17:00 GMT+2  |  Amalila Hall

Rethinking Access to Remedy Through a Lens of Power, Participation and Regional Alignment in Africa

Session partner: Webber Wentzel (South Africa)

15:40-17:00 GMT+2  |  Mupani 2 Hall

Reproductive Health and Gender Equality in the Implementation of the UNGPs

Session partner: Reproductive Health Uganda,, Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia, Reproductive Health Network Kenya, Danish Family Planning Association, Federation of Kenya Employers, Ethiopia Horticultural and Producers and Exporters Association and Federation of Uganda Employers

15:40-17:00 GMT+2  |  Mupani 1 Hall

Responsible Business in Plastics Recycling Supply Chains: Action in Africa

Session partner: The Circulate Initiative