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Corporate social responsibility

Conference on CSR, poverty and hunger

24/02/2006: Conference about Danish firms' investments in developing countries on 23 February 2006 at DanChurchAid headquarters, Copenhagen.

Fighting hunger with investments

The role of foreign investments in relation to development and the fight against poverty has been emphasised at numerous international meetings during the last years.

At the same time the debate about Corporate Social Responsibility has increased.

CSR report and presentations
---------------------------- New dimensions on corporate social responsibility (2006) 3.16 MB
---------------------------- CSR Conference Presentations 69.42 kB
---------------------------- Christian Friis Bach DCA 466.00 kB
---------------------------- Sven Riskær IFU 60.00 kB
---------------------------- Joanna Rubinstein UN Millennium Project 4.92 MB
---------------------------- Henriette Søltoft DI 10.33 MB
---------------------------- List of conference participants 25.00 kB

DCA conference on 23 February 2006 highlighted the relation between CSR, poverty and hunger, and brought new experiences and recommendations into the CSR debate.

At the conference, the report Fighting hunger with investments , produced by DanChurchAid in cooperation with several Danish firms with investments in India, was presented.

The experiences from India was used as input to the more general debate about investments and development.

Conference speakers

Joanna Rubinstein, Executive Director, UN Millennium Project, New York
Lars Rebien Sørensen, CEO, Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen
Sven Riskær, Director, Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU), Copenhagen
Christian Friis Bach, International Director of the DanChurchAid (DCA), Copenhagen
Harsh Dobhal, Journalist, Delhi
Rikke Nøhrlind, International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN), Copenhagen
Henriette Søltoft, Confederation of Danish Industries (DI), Copenhagen

Conference programme

9:00-9:30	Introduction and presentation of the DanChurchAid report, Christian Friis Bach (DCA)
9:30-10:15	Panel presentations: Harsh Dobhal, (Indian Journalist), Lars Rebien Sørensen (Novo Nordisk), Rikke Nøhrlind (IDSN), and Sven Riskær (IFU)
10:15-10:45	Questions and debate
11:45-11:00	Break
11:00-11:30	CSR and the Millennium Development Goals, Joanna Rubinstein, UN Millennium Project
11:30-12:00	CSR and developing countries, Henriette Søltoft, DI
12:00-12:30	Lunch (optional)

For further information about the conference, please contact Mattias Söderberg, Campaign Officer, DanChurchAid (email msd@dca.dk ).