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This two-day course is designed to provide professionals and decision makers that work in sectors with high risk for human rights, including digital technologies, with information and tools to understand and address human rights impacts, challenges and opportunities related to the projects. Through cases and exercises, the participants will discuss human rights impacts in the value chain of projects (including sourcing of critical minerals) and learn practical ways to operationalize the corporate responsibility to respect human rights as established in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The course includes an overview of the regulatory landscape related to business and human rights, as well as reflects on gender dimensions and the and impacts on indigenous peoples’ rights and environmental/human rights defenders. A session will be specially dedicated to human rights risk of digital technologies and methodologies and tools to identify and assess them. Finally, the participants will learn on principles and methodologies to ensure the identification and assessment of human rights risks and impacts and how to apply a human rights-based approach for a meaningful engagement with workers and communities incl. vulnerable groups during impact assessment phases and due diligence.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Some knowledge or experience in developing, commissioning, or reviewing impact assessment or due diligence of renewable energy projects value chain. Basic knowledge of human rights would be an advantage but is not required. Professionals and students with knowledge of human rights but no previous experience in energy projects can also participate.
Language: English
Duration: 2 days (29-30 April)
Min/Max: 10-25
Price: US $480
Instructor(s):
Gabriela Factor, Chief Adviser, Human Rights, Tech and Business, Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
Line Gamrath Rasmussen, Senior Adviser, Human Rights and Technology, Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
Signe Andreasen Lysgaard, Chief Adviser, Human Rights, Tech and Business, Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
Gabriela Factor
Gabriela Factor is a Chief Adviser leading the work on the energy transition and human rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She has over 20 years of working experience in international projects in Latin America, South East Asia, Africa and the Arctic, with special focus on energy and extractives.
Gabriela has provided numerous training courses and developed capacity building programs on diverse areas of impact assessment and management, gender, and human rights for, among others World Bank, EIB, IADB, DANIDA, FINIDA, SIDA, ECOWAS and UNDP, as well as civil society and indigenous groups. Her training experience also includes co-development and training of in person and online courses with the University of Groningen and Strathclyde lead by the consulting company CIG. She is an active IAIA member and was trainers of the IAIA courses: “Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessment” in IAIA 2013; “Social Impact Assessment and Management in Spanish” in IAIA 2014, “Human Rights and Impact Assessment” at the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022 IAIA conferences and “Social and Health lmpact Assessment and Management in Spanish” during the special symposium in Panama.
Gabriela has a MSc in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and holds qualifications on gender, resettlement and health impact assessment. Before DIHR, she was a senior consultant at Community Insights Group and SWECO.
Line Gamrath Rasmussen
Line Gamrath Rasmussen has been leading the technology and human rights thematic work across the Danish Institute’s International area since 2021, in particular on how digitalization brings new challenges for democratic systems and institutions and in many cases undermine human rights in relation to AI & algorithmic decision-making, surveillance, data governance and in the increasing digital divide and inequality in access to the internet and new technologies. She provides expert advice, training and capacity-building on technology & human rights and ensuring a human rights-based approach to digital governance through human rights due diligence and impact assessments.
Line is an experienced facilitator of workshops, trainings and processes, including developing training methodology and materials. She is currently developing an online resource on digital rights and the human rights impacts of digital business activities, a topic on which she has been provided capacity building, training and advise to national human rights institutions in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Line has more than 20 years of experience as a human rights, good governance and sustainable development professional with a business degree in PR and a European Master’s in Human Rights and democratization. She is passionate about tech, innovation and new technologies and how the practical implementation of a human rights based approach to digitalization can be done.
Signe Andreasen Lysgaard
Signe Andreasen Lysgaard is Chief Adviser on Human Rights Business and Technology at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Mrs. Lysgaard has a background in Political Science and more than a decade of experience advising on business and human rights across sectors and geographies. She is an experienced expert speaker, trainer, facilitator, negotiator and multi-stakeholder convener on business, finance and human rights, with a broad sectoral and geographical working experience.
Today, her work focuses on scaling up respect for human rights across the financial sector. To that end she engages in policy developments, project level collaborations with financial institutions and research activities. As part of this work Signe works on and with development finance institutions on advancing approaches to human rights risk management in project finance and beyond.
Signe is a trusted advisor of several external initiatives. She served on the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (2020-2022) advising on minimum safeguards and continues to serve as expert advisor to a number of external bodies including the EU Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) Sustainability Reporting Technical Expert Group and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Human Rights Technical Expert Group.Lastly Signe is an experienced speaker and trainer and currently facilitates the DanSif Human Rights Network focusing on the investment context after having facilitated the cross-sectoral Nordic Business Network on Human Rights for more than five years. She has taught the Masterclass on Human Rights Impact Assessment, on which this course is based, in February 2019 and 2020.