Provides training courses that are tailored to the needs of companies and trends concerning business and human rights. It also provides national and international case studies and in-house training for companies and their suppliers on specific human rights issues relevant to their operations and value chains.
Provide opportunities for learning corporate good practices and field visits to model companies with recognitions and awards in business and human rights while fostering a safe space and dialogue between companies in order to exchange perceptions, experiences, and relevant operational practices.
Represents collaboration between relevant key stakeholders in business and human rights, allowing participating companies to learn from a variety of perspectives and subject matters, including from government agencies, private actors, civil society organizations, and international organizations.
Business and Human Rights: How companies can operationalize the UN Guiding Principles is developed by the UN Global Compact, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and in collaboration with Shift.
Business and Human Rights Academy serves as a practical learning platform for businesses to enhance their knowledge and understanding of business and human rights while also strengthening their capacity to integrate human rights principles and good practices into cooperate actions.
Business and Human Rights Academy plays a key role in driving responsible business practices towards human rights, including by providing information and training on business and human rights for businesses, civil society organizations, government, and other relevant actors.
Business and Human Rights Academy is a collaboration between the UN Global Compact Network Thailand and its partners: the Department of Rights and Liberties Protection of the Ministry of Justice; the Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand; the Securities and Exchange Commission Thailand; and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Thailand. The Academy serves as a practical learning platform for businesses to develop their knowledge and understanding in relation to business and human rights while strengthening their capacity to integrate human rights principles and good practices into business operations and value chains.
Yes – since the Business and Human Rights Academy has no financial support for training, the Academy, therefore, needs to collect tuition fees to cover training costs, including such as speaker fees, venues, and other relevant administrative and logistic expenses.
No – on-site training courses of the Business and Human Rights Academy are open for all companies interested in business and human rights issues, without having to have prior relevant operational experience and technical knowledge. However, as the on-site training courses are provided for those who may be familiar with or have intermediate knowledge of human rights, it is recommended that companies may take a foundation course on business and human rights available at the e-learning of the Academy in order to understand the overview, principles, and basic concepts of business and human rights before enrolling in on-site training.
In the present day, business practitioners are not only responsible for generating profits and income as well as delivering goods and services that can meet the needs of customers and society, but they are also required to ensure that their business operations and those along the value chains are responsible to society and environment. As part of this growing corporate responsibility, businesses need to be able to ensure that their own actions and those of business partners do not create adverse human rights impacts on any individuals. To support businesses in Thailand in integrating human rights principles as well as the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) into their corporate practices, the UN Global Compact Network Thailand (UNGCNT), in collaboration with the Department of Rights and Liberties Protection of the Ministry of Justice, the Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, the Securities and Exchange Commission Thailand, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Thailand established “the Business and Human Rights Academy (BHR Academy)” to serve as a practical learning platform for businesses to enhance their knowledge and understating on human rights as well as strengthen their capacity to move forward the human rights agenda and good practices in their day-to-day operations and across value chains. This BHR Academy is expected to become a training hub on business and human rights for Asia and the Pacific.
Business and Human Rights Academy plays a key role in enhancing knowledge and understanding of business and human rights of relevant key stakeholders, including by providing a series of training on business and human rights for business actors, government, and civil society organizations. The training will be offered in many batches and cover a variety of topics, including a service for in-house training for companies and their suppliers on selected topics of human rights that are relevant to their operations and value chains.
Business and Human Rights Academy, in partnership with key stakeholders, will organize a series of dialogues on business and human rights. These include annual events on the National Dialogue on Business and Human Rights and the Bangkok Business and Human Rights Week, which aim to serve as a platform for relevant stakeholders, including government, private actors, and civil society organizations to discuss and exchange good practices on relevant human rights issues in order to drive society and business ecosystem to evolve and operate in a concrete manner with respect to human rights.
