A community of 25 organisations will come together in Geneva from 23 to 25 November to ask one shared question: what’s stopping implementation, and how do we unblock it?
AIM-Progress is convening a programme of six side sessions at this year’s UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, from 23 to 25 November 2026. Under the banner “From momentum to implementation”, the sessions bring together 25 organisations: businesses and business networks, trade unions, civil society, multi-stakeholder initiatives, research institutions and UN agencies.
Why we’ve taken on this role
In previous years, side sessions at the Forum have often run at the same time and covered overlapping themes. Delegates had to choose between sessions rather than attend all the ones that mattered to them.
This year, the organisations involved agreed to do things differently. They planned the schedule together and framed the discussion topics in advance. AIM-Progress offered to convene that coordination, bringing partners together, structuring the programme and coordinating joint communications. Each session is still designed and delivered by its own partners.
For AIM-Progress, this is a natural role. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work: our members come together precompetitively because they know that many human rights challenges in supply chains can’t be solved by one company alone. The same is true at the Forum. By planning together, the partners are showing in practice the kind of collaboration that businesses need to embed to tackle human rights challenges at scale.
One shared question
Fifteen years on from the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the frameworks and tools to help businesses respect human rights are in place. Each session asks a version of the same question: so what’s actually stopping implementation, and how do we unblock it?
Across the three days, the sessions cover:
- a human rights based just transition
- living income and living wage
- responsible sourcing of recycled materials
- 20 years of collaborative action and remediation
- meaningful stakeholder engagement
- an Oxford-style debate on the UNGPs at 15
Throughout the programme, workers, producers and other rightsholders will speak directly, alongside business, trade unions and civil society.
Louise Herring, Executive Director: “We’re proud to convene this programme alongside such a committed community of organisations. Coordinating the sessions means delegates can join every conversation that matters to them. It also shows what collaboration can achieve when organisations plan together rather than in parallel.”
Join us
All six sessions are free to attend, but places are limited and registration is required. Find full details and registration links for every session here.