CRIB Working Group Hong Kong Group Meeting - June 11 2021
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About this event
Dear CRIB Working Group Members,
Time runs fast and its soon summer in the Northern Hemisphere and we look forward seeing you all soon at our June CRIB Working Group meeting.
We will have one mixed-format meeting for our members located in Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong and a virtual meeting for those in Europe and Americas. If you have a conference room which can accommodate around 20 people, preferably with videoconferencing facilities and would like to host the Hong Kong meeting -please let us know!
During the meeting, we’ll share an update on The Centre’s Joint Action Pledge towards the elimination of child labour, and outline next steps related to this.
As always, we invite you to put forward your suggestions for any specific child rights issue areas or challenges you would like us to focus on during the meetings, please let us know your thoughts and we will incorporate them into the agenda below.
Our meetings in June 2021
CRIB Hong Kong Meeting: Friday 11 June 2-5pm HKT (Venue TBC). Please sign up via Eventbrite for the HK session.
In Person at Rewe Far East Office 19/F Linkchart Industrial Centre,
No. 2 Tai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Online: Teams link: Click here to join the meeting
CRIB Virtual Meeting: Thursday 17 June HK 9pm-10.30pm HKT, Central Europe 3pm, US West Coast 6am, US East Coast 9am Please sign up via Eventbrite for the virtual session.
Hong Kong Group Meeting Agenda
1. Registration
2. Welcome & Introductions
• Agenda and introductions
• Welcome by CEO Ines Kaempfer
Malin Liljert & Ines Kaempfer, The Centre
3. Update from The Centre on the Joint Action Pledge for the IYECL
• Next steps, activities, reporting
Mark Robertson, The Centre
4. Young and Juvenile Workers In Global Supply Chains
• Young workers – a compliance issue or an asset?
• How to support young and juvenile workers? Good practice examples from manufacturing and agribusiness sectors
Ines Kaempfer & The Centre team in Vietnam & Indonesia
5. Member Sharing TBC (depending on host)
6. Update from The Centre and Q&A
• New website / online resources
• Upcoming research launches
• Expansion of The Centre services (Africa, Mexico, India)
Mark Robertson and Ines Kaempfer, The Centre Members Updates
7. End
We look forward seeing you soon!
Kind regards,
The Centre Team
Organiser The Centre for Child Rights and Business
Organiser of CRIB Working Group Hong Kong Group Meeting - June 11 2021
The Centre for Child Rights and Business (The Centre) (formerly the Center for Child Rights & Corporate Social Responsibility - CCR CSR) supports businesses to deliver improvements within their supply chains that not only benefit workers, families and children, but also deliver positive business outcomes. We offer global expertise, services and support covering a broad range of child rights and well-being issues.
