This was the fifth meeting on indigenous peoples, human rights and transnational companies, examining the challenges facing Latin America and the European Union.
On 14 June, Rafael García Martín, president and founder of CMI Business School, took part in the fifth scientific seminar on international law at the University of Alcalá de Henares, examining the European Union’s challenges in the context of indigenous peoples’ rights and the advance of transnational companies.
García Martín joined the third round table, which addressed specialist education in corporate social responsibility and human rights, against the background of global problems such as rising poverty — which, according to the United Nations, reached 22% of the population of developing countries this year.
The director of the business school specialising in CSR spoke about the importance of building this sustainable perspective into everything a company does, so as to achieve real improvements in rights and in productivity.
On the panel alongside him were Laura Aragonés Molina, doctor, researcher and lecturer at the University Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Alcalá; and Juliana Rodríguez Pataroyo, deputy coordinator of professional placements on the same university’s Master’s in the International Protection of Human Rights.
The seminar was chaired by Elena Crespo Navarro, senior lecturer in public international law and international relations at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche.
The event formed part of the research project “Human rights and the overseas activity of Spanish companies: challenges and responses from international law”, funded by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Science and Innovation.
For CMI it is an honour to contribute to spaces of analysis and reflection such as this, which advance the development of better policy and the winning of rights.
