Business & Human Rights Accelerator

Overview
Agenda

The idea of human rights is as simple as it is powerful: That all people have a right to be treated with dignity.

Business is about people. Directly or indirectly, businesses often impact the human rights of their employees and contract workers, workers in their supply chains, the communities around their operations and the end users of their products or services. Businesses impact virtually the entire spectrum of internationally recognized human rights.
As a result, companies have both a responsibility and an opportunity to advance human rights across their operations, supply chains and beyond. Is your company able to know and show that it supports and respects the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights, and that it is not complicit in human rights abuses?

The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating companies participating in the UN Global Compact across industries and regions. The objective is to help businesses swiftly move from commitment to action on human rights and labour rights through establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence process in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

As a participant in the Business and Human Rights Accelerator, you are expected to dedicate approximately 70-80 hours in total, covering all sessions (local and global), homework, and submission of the action plan.
Participants pay a fee of 10,000 DKK per company, which covers the entire accelerator programme, including in-person sessions co-hosted with a speaker from the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

For more information visit the global website.

Agenda

Thursday, January 29, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Global kick off Welcome session for all participating companies

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Deep Dive 1

Global Deep Dive 1 : Participants understand the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) as well as the human rights due diligence process and determine where they are on their human rights journey.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Global BHR Alumni sharing session

A Global session inviting BHRA alumni from previous rounds to share their BHRA Action plan progress to date, challenges experienced in their HRDD journey and sharing of solutions/ good practice they’ve initiated/ implemented. This session also serves to motivate BHRA Round 4 participants to start the BHR Accelerator strong, maintain the momentum throughout the programme as well as finish successfully and embed the action plans into their business strategies and operations.

Thursday, March 5, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Ask the Expert 1 Ask the Expert: Evolving Legislation

Thursday, March 12, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Deep Dive 2 Global Deep Dive 2: Participants scope the company value chain and identify potential negative impacts.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
–	In-person session 1 More information coming.

Thursday, March 26, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Ask the Expert 2 Ask the Expert_ ILO

Wednesday, April 8, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Deep Dive 3 Global Deep Dive 3: Participants prioritize salient human rights impacts and understand their involvement with those impacts

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Ask the Expert 3 Ask the Expert_ Topic (TBC)

Wednesday, April 29, 2026
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Deep Dive 4 Global Deep Dive 4: Participants start developing specific actions and related metrics.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
–	In-person session 2 More information coming.

Thursday, May 7, 2026
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Global BHR resource sharing session A Global session sharing UNGC BHR resources and tools as well as globally accessible CN resources and tools. This session offers CNs an opportunity to share their developed resources that are relevant and applicable to BHRA participants.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Deep Dive 5 Global Deep Dive 5: Participants understand how to effectively engage affected stakeholders and communicate their impacts.

Thursday, May 21, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Ask the Expert 4 Ask the Expert_ Human Rights and AI (TBC)

Thursday, June 11, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Deep Dive 6 Global Deep Dive 6: Participants understand remedy and grievance mechanisms.

Monday, June 15, 2026
–	In-person session 3 More information coming.

Wednesday, June 24, 2026
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Global Share-out session Global Share-out 2: Participants are giving the opportunity to share their Action Plans with a global audience and receive input from an expert international panel/ peers

Thursday, July 2, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Global Closing Session Closing session for all participating companies – motivate participants to continue with progressing Actions Plans and embedding the HRDD process in their organization

Thursday, December 10, 2026
–	Special closing event for the Business & Human Rights Accelerator More information coming.

Thursday, January 29, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Global kick off Welcome session for all participating companies