African Business Round Table | ABR [Abbr.]

African Business Round Table

Roundtable discussion on Cooperation and Human Rights

Inter-Regional Mass Media Leaders' Round-table on the Problems of Southern Africa

Panel on the Issue of the Role of Transnational Corporations in South Africa and Namibia in a Journalist Encounter

[7] Germany, jointly with Gabon, organized a high level side event at the General Assembly Ministerial Week in September 2013; France held a round-table on the occasion of the Heads of State and Government Summit on Peace and Security in Africa on 5 December 2013; the United Kingdom is hosting a high level Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade on 13 February 2014.

3. Roundtable 2: Measures to ensure respect for and protection of the human rights of all migrants, with particular reference to women and children as well as to prevent and combat the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons and to ensure orderly, regular and safe migration

In order to identify and assess the challenges facing the steel industry, a High‑Level Roundtable (HLR) was set up in July 2012 by the Vice-President and Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in co-operation with the Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs.[14] The HLR served as a platform for dialogue between the Commission, industry chief executives and trade unions.

2. Welcomes the fact that on the agenda of the 19th regular session there are, among others, panel discussions on human rights mainstreaming, freedom of expression on the internet, freedom of religion or belief and conscience, discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity, human rights and HIV/AIDS, and the Declaration of the Rights of Minorities, as well as extensive meetings on the rights of the child, and on torture, human rights and counter-terrorism, disappearances and arbitrary detention; calls on Member States to contribute constructively to these debates, and make clear that universal and indivisibl ...[+++]e human rights apply to people regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity;