Associate Professor Surya Deva invited to join UN Global Compact’s Target Gender Equality Global Coalition
We are pleased to announce that Dr Surya Deva, Associate Professor of CityU School of Law and a Member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, has been invited by the United Nations Global Compact to join its Target Gender Equality Global Coalition, a multi-stakeholder group bringing together gender equality and business experts. The Global Coalition will assist the UN Global Compact in the development and rollout of Target Gender Equality, an initiative with a focus on increasing women’s representation on corporate boards and in executive management positions.
This invitation is a recognition of Deva’s work as a member of the UN Working Group. He developed and presented to the Human Rights Council in June 2019 a report on gender guidance for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
我院欣告香港城市大學法律學院副教授、聯合國商業與人權問題工作組成員 Surya Deva, 博士獲聯合國全球契約組織邀請，加入其目標性別平等全球聯盟。該聯盟是一個由多個利益相關者組成的團體，聚集了性別平等和商業領域專家。該聯盟將協助聯合國全球契約組織制定和實現目標性別平等，這一倡議的重點是增強婦女在公司董事會和執行管理職位中的代表性。
此次邀請肯定了Deva作為聯合國工作組成員所作的貢獻。他於2019年6月制定並向人權理事會提交了一份題為 gender guidance for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights 的報告.