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Dr Virginia Mantouvalou appointed 'Specialist Advisor' to Joint Committee on Human Rights

18 July 2016

Virginia Mantouvalou

 Reader in Human Rights and Labour Law and Co-Director of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute for Human Rights, has been appointed Specialist Advisor to the 

Together with Professor Robert McCorquodale, Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Dr Mantouvalou will assist the Committee in this inquiry over the coming months.

Dr Mantouvalou said:

‘I am very pleased to be involved in the inquiry of the Joint Committee on Human Rights on Business and Human Rights. The UK led the way in the field by being the first country that published its National Action Plan in 2013 (revised in 2016), implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

It is also interesting to note that the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 contains a section on Transparency in Supply Chains. The Committee will examine the progress made by the Government this far, in an area that of course sets important challenges in regulation and compliance’.