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What is Modern Slavery? An urgent societal problem.

What is Modern Slavery? An urgent societal problem.

We are pleased to invite you to a unique SKEMA keynote (in English) in presence of a special guest: Urmila Bhoola, former UN rapporteur on issues related to modern slavery. Following the keynote, a round table will be moderated by students from SKEMA, led by 3 professors : Rodolphe DesbordesFrederic Munier and Samentha Goethals as part of a ThinkForward Lectures Series.

MODERN SLAVERY, any of your Business Education?

What is Modern Slavery? An urgent societal problem. As defined by the ILO (2017), it entails: “situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power”. This includes such coercive practices as indentured labour, debt bondage, forced labour, servitude, and human trafficking. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), yet current accounts estimate that 40 million people are trapped in modern slavery worldwide; 1 in 4 of them are children.


What has it got to do with business? Everything! It is global, illegitimate, pervasive in supply chains and results from economic dynamics and business models that create and rely on a supply of people vulnerable to forced labour. So much so, that in the last decade several legislations have been enacted in the USA (California Transparency in Supply Chain Act, 2010), the UK (2015 Modern Slavery Act), Australia (2018 Modern Slavery) urging the business community to prevent modern slavery from entering their supply chains. It has thus grabbed the attention of policy makers, civil society, the general public, and business leaders. The latter have acknowledged modern slavery as a salient human rights risk in their operations and taken strategic measures to eliminate it.

What is being done about it in business and management education and research? Not much… Yet. So what could be done to bring Modern Slavery on business and management programmes? What could learning about modern slavery entail in business education? How could non-business disciplines and interdisciplinary teaching inform such learning by shining a light on other contemporary societal problems and dynamics which implicate business responsibility for human rights?
Where do we start? This first discussion event on Modern Slavery and business education at SKEMA gives an impetus and partly answers the first question by providing a space to examine these questions and others from our students, faculty and alumni audience in our various campuses. It is organised as part of the Think Forward initiative in collaboration with Masters 1 students from the Programme Grande Ecole.This link will allow you to connect to Teams on the day of the event


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KEYNOTE:

▶︎ Urmila Bhoola, South African Human Rights Lawyers, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences

▶︎Introduction by PGE Masters 1 - Roxane Cadis-Guillon, Fiona Simonucci, Lea Nucciarelli
Why and what do we expect to learn about modern slavery in Business Schools in France?"

▶︎GUEST SPEAKERS

Prof. Erika George | Director of the Tanner Humanities Center and Samuel D. Thurman | Professor of Law at the University of Utah
"Race inequality, modern slavery and why and how these matter for business education?"
Dr Lara Bianchi | Rights Lab Assistant Professor in Business and Society, Nottingham University Business School
"Gender and exploitation in supply chains, why and how these matter for business education?"
Dr Samentha Goethals | Assistant Professor Human Rights and Business, SKEMA Business School -
"Migrant workers and barriers to free movement and work, why and how these matter for business education?"
(TBC) Prof. Robert Caruana | Rights Lab Professor of Business Ethics, Nottingham University Business School
"Modern slavery a non-field in business and management "

Discussion and Q/A chaired by Prof Rodolphe Desbordes and Prof Frederic Munier

Thursday 3rd December 2020
18h30 - 20h00 (GMT +1)
Event organised online
Thursday 3rd December 2020
18h30 - 20h00 (GMT +1)
Event organised online
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