2024  |  Promoting Responsible Business Conduct in a Rapidly Changing Context

The 2024 ABHR Forum fostered policy dialogue and peer-to-peer learning on responsible business conduct and on the human rights implications of the emerging African and global regulatory and policy landscape in Africa, generating crucial insights as well as key recommendations for the adoption of strong regulatory and policy frameworks and business models that promote ethical and sustainable practices, in line with internationally agreed norms and principles. 

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It will focused on the continued integration of responsible business conduct and human rights due diligence in business operations, strengthening the policy frameworks of African Member States on responsible business conduct leveraging the UNGPs, AfCFTA and other frameworks, and building the capacity of stakeholders to apply an responsible business conduct lens to the development and implementation national action plans, and to State and business practices in Africa, aligning these to African and international human rights and responsible business conduct frameworks.

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The 2024 African Business and Human Rights Forum, held over three days in Nairobi, culminated in the Nairobi Declaration, emphasizing the integration of human rights into business practices across Africa. Read more: