July 23rd and 24th of 2009 →
Organised with the support of :
 | Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply |
 | Public Ministry of the Work Brazil |
 | Secretary for the Environment of the State of Sao Paulo |
 | National Confederation of Workers in Agriculture |
 | Federation of Rural Employees of the State of São Paulo |
 | Union of Industry of Sugarcane |
 | Group of Studies in Human Resources in Agribusiness |
 | Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress |
 | Friedrich Ebert Fundation Brazil |
 | AVINA |
 | ESIA Consulting |
 | RONGEAD |
 | Institute of Co-operation for Economic and Social Development |
 | Ethos Institut |
The seminar « Social rights, environmental rights and Sustainable management in the Brazilian
Sugar-Alcool industry » comes as a follow up of the 2 previous seminars organized by the NGO Ethical
Sugar.
In 2004, Ethical Sugar led the multi stakeholder seminar « Economic globalisation and globalisation of
social and environment rights » at the occasion of the UNCTAD XI meeting in São Paulo city.
In 2006, Ethical Sugar conducted another seminar on « Social and environment issues in the sugarcane sector ».
The objective of this third seminar is to bring together the various actors of the civil society linked to the
sugarcane sector, in order to come up with consensual bases of social dialogue, and draw improvement
schemes for the sector, that would be based upon the social, economic and environmental legal framework.
A special focus will be made on the Brazilian regulation in order to enable the sector to develop a real social
responsibility policy, that is to say, far beyond the « legal minima ».
Economic
globalisation and globalisation of social and environmental rights