Voices - Conversations On Business And Human Rights From Around The World

Aruna Chandrasekhar is a senior researcher at Amnesty International in India, where she has been working on business impacts on human rights. She has led advocacy campaigns and participated in mass mobilisation around mining and other large projects.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi met Professor Bilchitz during the UN Forum in Geneva where he made the case for a treaty for business and human rights.

Nnimmo Bassey is a renowned Nigerian poet, architect and environmental activist. He has been the chair of Friends of the Earth Internatoinal and executive director of Environmental Rights Action.

Mariam Memarsadeghi is co-founder and co-director of the E-Collaborative for Civic Education, running the Tavaana and TavaanaTech projects.

Helani Galpaya is the chief executive at LIRNEasia, a think tank that works across Asia-Pacific, believing that markets can work to help the poor. She has focused on the delivery of electricity and govt. services for urban poor and small entrepreneurs.

Can humanitarian aid and economics mix? Are there lessons from the way the humanitarian aid sector operates that business can learn from? Are there business skills and techniques that the humanitarian sector should adopt, so that it is more effective?

Neill Wilkins, Project Manager: Migrant Workers and Work With Dignity, speaks to Lara White, Senior Labour Migration Specialist at IOM in Geneva, Switzerland.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently published a report which highlights the risks of reprisals human rights defenders face when they oppose projects financed by the World Bank.

The creation of the BRICS Bank has drawn the attention of not only international financial institutions and governments, but also international civil society.

Thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees are stranded in the Andaman Sea, victims of human trafficking. Countries in the region - Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia - are unwilling to let them enter their territory.

Colin Jackson is a champion athlete who has been an Olympic silver medalist for Britain, and has been the world champion in 110m hurdles thrice, and held the world record for the race for over a decade.

Rayyan Hassan is a Bangladeshi development expert based in the Philippines, who is the executive director of the NGO Forum at the Manila-based multilateral financial institution, Asian Development Bank.

Baone Twala is a candidate attorney at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a human rights organisation and law clinic based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Hiroshi Ishida is the executive director at the Caux Round Table Japan, a non-for-profit think-tank and network that promotes social responsibility and sustainability among businesses.

In January, Indian officials at Delhi airport prevented Priya Pillai, a campaigner at Greenpeace India, from boarding a flight to London, where she was invited to speak to an All-Party Parliamentary Group in the UK about a controversial coal-mining projec

Alex Budden is the Vice-President of External Relations at Africa Oil Corp which is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya and Ethiopia as well as Puntland (Somalia) through its 45% equity interest in Horn Petroleum Corporation.

Bill Browder is an investor whose London-based firm Hermitage Capital Management was an early investor in Russia and was highly profitable. Over time, Browder led campaigns for greater transparency in financial statements of Russian companies.

Chris Jochnick is the Director of the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America. He has worked for two decades on issues of human rights, development and corporate accountability.

Dr Christof Heyns is Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. He is Professor of Human Rights Law and Co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa...

Linda Piirto is a Senior Advisor in CSR at the Finnish Ministry of Employment and Economy, where she oversaw the preparation of Finland's National Action Plan. In 2012 she coordinated the work producing the Finnish government's CSR Action Plan.