An interesting event on human rights reporting presented by CSR Geneva:

Corporate Human Rights Reporting: An Analysis of current trends

Dr. Liz Umlas and Salil Tripathi will discuss some recent trends in human rights reporting, highlighting selected examples of innovative reporting on the subject, as well as key areas where further work is still needed.

Guest speakers: Dr. Liz Umlas, author of a recent report on corporate human rights reporting and independent researcher specializing in human rights and Salil Tripathi, Policy Director of Institute for Human Rights and Business in London, internationally recognized specialist in the field.

The talk will be moderated by Tony Burgener, Director, Senior consultant at Burson-Marsteller in Geneva.

When: On Wednesday, 13 January, 2010, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Where: First floor of the Restaurant La Broche – Salle la Combourgeoise, 36 rue du Stand, 1204 Genève, Tel. 022 321 22 60 –www.restaurantlabroche.ch

How to get there: Tram: 1 and 15 – “Stand”and several buses. If car needed, free private parking next to restaurant.

Entrance fee: CHF 15.—including networking cocktail

Registration compulsory (limited space): info@convergence-durable.org
Please mention if you would like to stay for dinner – delicious roasted meat on the spit or vegetarian option available.

An interesting event for all parents with teenage daughters:

Expanding Your Horizons is an international program for girls (age 11-15) who come from public and private schools. At the Geneva EYH conference, girls will participate in an exciting and fun-filled day of hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities led by professional women scientists and engineers. Girls will perform actual science experiments in small groups (in French and English) and talk with women scientists and engineers. Discover how an iPod is built, launch a comet, look at brain MRIs, find the link between cooking and chemistry and more!

Saturday, November 14th, 2009
International School – 62 Route de Chene, 1208, Geneva, Switzerland

Entrance:  15 CHF.  Pre-registration is a requirement.
Register at: www.expandingyourhorizons.org/conferences/Geneva

Exploring what types of exciting careers exist in math and science. Meet real “Googlers”–women engineers who work at Google, talk with a doctor from the World Health Organization, ask women physicists from CERN what they studied in school…and discover their passions.

Over 20 organizations will be represented. Dynamic women scientists from a variety of fields (like medicine, biotechnology, engineering, technology, environmental science, public health) will be there to talk with participants. An opportunity to meet other girls from around Switzerland and France with similar interests. And, at the end of the day a chance to win fabulous prizes–like a notebook computer and a private tour of CERN.

Parents welcome –  There’s a day-long program of interesting workshops for them as well.

To find out more and to register your daughter and yourself :  http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/conferences/Geneva/