| Year | CRT Main Event |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Continued to provide support for UNGPs-based initiatives for many companies / Conducted about 50 direct dialogues with rights-holders per year through human rights due diligence / Our direct dialogue with rights-holders enables identification of human rights issues through a deep-dive approach, which leads to stronger engagement. The effectiveness of this approach of human rights due diligence has been demonstrated, and is beginning to attract attention from overseas initiative organizations. |
| January：Issued “Human Rights Issues by Sector (12th Edition)”, following the public consultation on discussion points identified at the Human Rights Due Diligence Workshop. | |
| February: 9th Initiatives of Change for Business International Conference “Sustaining Business through Integrity and Trust” in Panchgani, India. | |
| April：Held a webinar ‘Commemorative lecture on the publication of the ANA Holdings “Human Rights Report 2023 (4th edition)” – Building on small success stories, continuity is strength! ～’’. | |
| April：Secretary General Ishida spoke as a lecturer at the conference ‘Proposal for an International Business-focused Forum on Corporate Due Diligence for Taiwan’ (organized by WRI and IHRB). | |
| April：Held a webinar‘The latest developments in the 2024 WBA and CHRB – why is respect for human rights now required of companies? ’. | |
| May：Hosted online meetings between WBA’s research team and four Japanese companies (Shionogi, NYK, Nissin Foods Holdings and ANA Holdings). | |
| June-July：Convened Nippon CSR Consortium Stakeholder Engagement Program (a series of the human rights due diligence workshop). | |
| July：Held a webinar‘Human Rights Due Diligence Impact Assessment at NYK – An essential and important part of human rights due diligence! | |
| August：Ishida spoke as a lecturer at the external seminar ‘Human rights responses of Japanese companies that need to be deepened to enhance corporate value’ hosted by Nomura Securities Co.. | |
| September: Chairman Yano lectured as a guest speaker at the FUJINOKUNI-MENSETSUKAI overseas joint interview and management seminar held in Mongolia, and Secretary General Ishida lectured as a guest speaker at a seminar organized by the Mongolian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. | |
| September：Ishida lectured as a guest speaker at the conference ‘Corporate Sustainability and Respect for Human Rights in Supply Chains‘ in Taiwan. | |
| October：Hosted the online conference “2024 International Conference on Business and Human Rights in Tokyo”. | |
| November：Organized a webinar on ‘Business and Human Rights’ – Practical approaches to respect for human rights in companies’ together with JP Research & Consulting Inc. and the Overseas Investment and Loan Information Foundation. Ishida lectured as a speaker. | |
| November：Held a webinar ‘OECD Documents and Tools for Responsible Corporate Behavior – An Update for Japanese Companies’, co-organized with the OECD. | |
| December: Ishida spoke as a lecturer at an external seminar on ‘The Roles and Responsibilities of Financial Institutions under the UNGPs’ hosted by the Japanese Bankers Association. | |
| December: Issued “Human Rights Issues by Sector (13th Edition)”, following the public consultation on discussion points identified at the Human Rights Due Diligence Workshop. | |
| 2023 | Due to the continued increase in requests for support regarding Human Rights due diligence, grievance mechanisms, information disclosure, e-learning, etc., strengthen our corporate support system in collaboration with several consulting companies / In human rights due diligence, particularly focused on strengthening engagement with rights-holders through direct dialogue and contributed to significant improvement of external evaluations toward the companies we support |
| February：Held a webinar ‘Guiding the compass for the 2023 UNGPs and Human Rights due diligence’. | |
| February：Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan, spoke as a lecturer at the workshop ‘ Climate Fresk Workshop with CRT’ hosted by Codo Advisory Inc.. | |
| April：Held a webinar ‘Ants and grasshoppers!? The direction (guide needle) for 2023 is toward the southwest (Asia) rather than the west (Europe)’. | |
| May：Held a webinar ‘2023 WBA & CHRB Latest Trends ‘. | |
| June-July：Convened Nippon CSR Consortium Stakeholder Engagement Program (a series of the human rights due diligence workshop). | |
| July：Held a webinar ‘Examples of initiatives by companies that fulfill their “Duty of Care” – Introducing an example of initiatives by NYK Line’ (guest: Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha). | |
| August：Ishida, Executive Director, spoke as a lecturer at the seminar ‘ Japanese companies need to deepen their Human Rights response to improve corporate value’ hosted by Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd.. | |
| October：hosted the online conference “2023 International Conference on Business and Human Rights in Tokyo”. | |
| November：Introduced CRTJapan’s activities and efforts in the storybook (online) published by WBA. | |
| November：Ishida, Executive Director, spoke as a guest lecturer at an external regular meeting hosted by The American State Offices Association (ASOA). | |
| November：At the “Forum on Business and Human Rights (Geneva)” hosted by OHCHR, CSO Miyata of ANA HOLDINGS INC., one of our client companies, made a presentation about their activities as concrete examples of Human Rights due diligence and grievance mechanisms. (Translation support by Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan). | |
| 2022 | Launched a corporate support system in collaboration with other consulting companies, in response to a noticeable increase in requests from Japanese companies for assistance based on the UNGPs / Grievance Mechanism using NINJA became in full operation at ANAHD (target: technical interns) and Kao (target: small-scale palm oil farmers) |
| February: Held the first in webinar series ‘Human Rights Due Diligence on Migrant Workers’. | |
| February: Held the first in webinar series ‘Latest developments in the WBA, CHRB in 2022 (3 sessions)’. | |
| March: Held the second in webinar series ‘Human Rights Due Diligence on Migrant Workers’. | |
| March: Issued “Human Rights Issues by Sector (10th Edition)”, following the public consultation on discussion points identified at the Human Rights Due Diligence Workshop. | |
| March: Held the reading session on ’Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive’ proposed by the European Commission. | |
| March: Held the second in webinar series ‘Latest developments in the WBA, CHRB in 2022 (3 sessions)’. | |
| April: Held the third in webinar series ‘Latest developments in the WBA, CHRB in 2022 (3 sessions)’. | |
| May-July: Convened Nippon CSR Consortium Stakeholder Engagement Program (a series of the human rights due diligence workshop). | |
| August: Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan, spoke at the ESG seminar ‘Human Rights and Supply Chain Management’ hosted by Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd. | |
| August: Held a webinar ‘Case studies of corporate initiatives based on UNGPs’ (guest: ANA HOLDINGS INC.). | |
| August: Submitted opinions in response to METI (the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)’s call for views on the draft Guidelines for Respect for Human Rights in Responsible Supply Chains, compiled by the Study Group on Guidelines for Respect for Human Rights in Supply Chains. | |
| August: Kao Corporation started operating a grievance mechanism for small-scale palm plantations in Indonesia, supported by CRT Japan. | |
| September: Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director and Secretary General, spoke as a guest of dialogue at the webinar ‘Business and Human Rights, Supply Chains and the Frontline of Human Rights DD’ organized by CRT Japan’s legal adviser, Miyake & Partners. | |
| September: Ishida, Executive Director, made a presentation at the International Union of Marine Underwriters (IUMI) annual conference in Seoul. | |
| October: Ishida, Executive Director, spoke at the webinar ’37th Logistics Strategy Seminar’ hosted by Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. | |
| October: hosted the online conference “2022 International Conference on Business and Human Rights in Tokyo”. | |
| December: Held a webinar event, ‘Are Japanese companies ready for the low-carbon transition?’ in association with the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and Codo Advisory. | |
| December: Issued “Human Rights Issues by Sector (11th Edition)”, following the public consultation on discussion points identified at the Human Rights Due Diligence Workshop. | |
| 2021 | Number of requests for assistance (human rights policies and human rights due diligence) to build a management system linking BHR and ESG in Japanese companies are increased, and support for building a management system from an external perspective based on the UNGPs became in full swing. |
| January: Fully launched the project titled ”Data Collection Survey on Protection of Vulnerable Workers in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis” sponsored by JICA. (Main contractor: ERM Japan; Collaborators: CRT Japan, Kamiyacho International Law Office) | |
| January: Hosted a round table on ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Workers’ at the RISE World Summit 2021. | |
| February: Issued “Human Rights Issues by Sector (9th Edition)”, following the public consultation on discussion points identified at the Human Rights Due Diligence Workshop. | |
| March: Held a webinar ‘Latest developments on the 2021 WBA Social Transformation Framework’. | |
| March: Prepared the Japanese translation (full version) of the “WBA Social Transformation Framework” report, which was posted on the WBA website. | |
| June: Held a webinar ‘Latest Trends in WBA, CHRB at June, 2021′. | |
| July-September: Convened Nippon CSR Consortium Stakeholder Engagement Program (a series of the human rights due diligence workshop). | |
| September: Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan, made a presentation at “the latest trends in ‘Business and Human Rights’ and supply chain management” hosted by SGS Japan Inc.. | |
| October: hosted the online conference “2021 International Conference on Business and Human Rights in Tokyo”. | |
| October: Prepared the Japanese translation of the “WBA 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark Key Findings” report, which was posted on the WBA website. | |
| December: Held the joint conference organized by Sedex and supported by CRT Japan. | |
| December: Held a webinar ‘What to do in a worldview of uncertainty (trends and countermeasures)’ | |
| 2020 | CRT Japan’s independently developed system platforms, “Global Supply Chain Data Management System” for visualizing supply chains in companies and “NINJA” as Grievance Mechanism are decided to introduce by ANAHD / Actively transmitted the importance of direct dialogue between companies and domestic technical trainees |
| January-September: In collaboration with BHRRC and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, developed an information library platform on “Business and Human Rights” (bringing global information to Japan and communicating Japan’s trends to the world). | |
| February: Hosted the 8th Initiatives of Change for Business International Conference “Creating Value by Building Trust” in Panchgani, India. | |
| February: Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan, made a presentation at the 51st Corporate Legal Affairs Study Group. | |
| April: Jointly hosted a civil society workshop “Promoting Human Rights Legacy from Mega Sporting Events in Japan” with the Center for Sport and Human Rights and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. | |
| July: Held a webinar on WBA Social Transformation. | |
| August-October: Convened Nippon CSR Consortium Stakeholder Engagement Program (a series of the human rights due diligence workshop). | |
| September: Held a webinar, “Who Pays? What Companies Need to Know about Labor Migration to Japan,” co-hosted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB). | |
| September: Held a webinar on “Latest Trends on ‘Business and Human Rights’ in India”. | |
| September-October: Solicited public comments on New Normal and Build Back Better in the Post-Corona Era. | |
| October: Jointly hosted the online conference “2020 International Conference on Business and Human Rights in Tokyo” with the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB). | |
| November: Held an online information session, “Centralized Understanding! Guide to the Foreign Worker Information Consolidation System”. | |
| November: Held an online information session: “Introduction to Ninja-Biz, a Foreign Worker Management System”. | |
| December: Held a webinar “Latest Trends on LGBTI”. | |
| December: Held a webinar “2020 Summary: Latest Trends in WBA, CHRB”. |
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