On Wednesday 7 June 2023, Dr. Yvonne Erkens, Kate Verhoeff, Emma Snel and Fleur Walravens, Department of Social Law in Leiden gave a presentation on The Database of Business Ethics for the Oxford Business and Human Rights Network (OxBHR) at the University of Oxford.
The meeting was organized by Fleur Walravens, who is currently studying at the University of Oxford. The other presenters joined online from Leiden Law School. Their presentation was about the project the Database of Business Ethics they are working on.
This project, under the supervision of Dr. Yvonne Erkens, aims Codes of Conduct and Supplier Codes of Conduct of companies all around the world. These documents are then compiled into a publicly accessible database, where they can be filtered based on their inclusion of fundamental labour rights. These rights have been formulated by the ILO (International Labour Organization), who commenced with the protection of labour rights 100 years ago and continues to the present with its work.
After the presentation, a fruitful discussion ensued, in which future possibilities for the use of the Database in both research and education were proposed.
