The panellists will include Ms. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights (lead panellist) H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Salama, Chairman Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development (expert panellist) and Ms. Hina Jilani, Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders (expert panellist).

The panellist from Nestlé stressed the multiplier effects of corporate contributions in the economic domain.

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One panellist emphasized that special attention should be paid to the problem of sexual exploitation of children online.

The panellist from Merck pointed to the role of corporate contributions in promoting economic development and peace and democracy.

The panellist from Rio Tinto emphasized that there was no dichotomy between socio economic responsibility and building shareholder value.

The panellist from the WTO Secretariat informed the Commission about the activities of the Negotiating Group on Trade Facilitation.

It was mentioned by a panellist, however, that countries should not rely on a single model of service cluster.

The panellist from BASF described BASF Brazil's 2015 policy, which includes sustainable development as one of its four major goals.

The panellist from Jamaica emphasized the importance of employment creation by TNCs in the major sectors of the Jamaican economy.

The panellist from the UN Global Compact introduced the Global Compact and the way it approached the issue of CSR.

The panellist from the UN Research Institute for Social Development reflected on the institutional and policy dimensions of corporate responsibility.

The third panellist, Matthew Gianni, international fisheries consultant, proposed measures to address bottom trawling and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

The panellist from McKinsey highlighted the importance of social trends and the long term influence of social factors on business development.

The panellist from Burkina Faso reiterated the need to learn about how the private sector can contribute to development beyond mere investment.

The panellist from Procter Gamble stressed the importance of aligning the business case for entering a developing country with its development needs.

The panellist from the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture said that agricultural smallholders were in fact private sector actors, not aid recipients.

The panellist from FairVentures highlighted an example of a home country measure designed to stimulate and facilitate positive corporate contributions to development (BiD Challenge).

The panellist from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) stressed the need to view corporate responsibility initiatives in their specific market contexts.

In this regard, a panellist commented that as jobs were moved overseas, new jobs were created in the home country further up the value chain.

The panellist from Pakistan gave an overview of his country's investment climate, pointing to sectors in which investment had occurred and those in which more investment was needed.

The panellist from CUTS International illustrated the pros and cons of corporate development contributions in the context of the Bhutan experience and Indian industry's role in that country.

The panellist from a private sector logistics company explained that the private sector did not usually use the word trade facilitation , but regarded its elements as prerequisites for trade.

The panellist from Caterpillar pointed to his company's environmentally friendly re manufacturing techniques as an effective way to reduce waste and maximize efficiency in the interest of developing country customers.

One panellist supported the idea of developing such an instrument, citing the importance of having a global legal framework and providing unified global standards in relation to computer related crime.

The panellist from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development pointed to the growing reliance on the private sector to satisfy basic needs as an increasingly important trend in developing countries.

The panellist from Unilever said that the synergies that might emerge from linkages between TNCs and local enterprises had great potential to create new employers, which in turn would generate new jobs.

The panellist from Panama said that the definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR) went beyond legal norms related to labour quality, environment and human rights and the implementation of standards (in particular ISO standards).

The panellist from Indonesia commented on the Oxfam Unilever case study and said that FDI had played a positive role in developing his country's economy, including with regard to resource mobilization, linkages development and employment.

The panellist from Chad stressed the need to learn more about positive contributions by TNCs to the economic and social development of host developing countries, especially in light of the fight against the HIV AIDS pandemic.

The fourth panellist, Kjartan Hoydal, Secretary of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, provided a report on the outcome of the fourth meeting of Regional Fishery Bodies, which was held on 14 and 15 March 2005.

The panellist from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions said that the debate should not only focus on the maximization of positive corporate contributions but also take into account how to minimize the negative effects of corporate activity.

The panellist from Hewlett Packard (HP) introduced HP's Micro Enterprise Acceleration Program, which uses open source Internet based information and communication technologies to strengthen the skills of micro business owners in this field, thus contributing to job creation and skills upgrading.

The panellist from the World Economic Forum (WEF) stressed that achieving the Millennium Development Goals was far from ensured and mentioned the important role of the private sector in this regard, in particular insofar as public private partnerships were concerned.

The panellist from the Geneva Social Observatory stressed the need for coherence and coordination in pursuing multiple public private partnerships and the need for stimulating dialogue in a multi stakeholder setting that ought to include TNCs, SMEs, the informal sector, civil society and international agencies.

The panellist from UNDP stressed the important role of policy dialogue between TNCs and local players in order to better understand the obstacles to foreign investment and to identify markets and opportunities that would satisfy basic needs such as access to water, transportation, waste removal and energy.

The third panellist, Lori Ridgeway, Director General, International Coordination and Policy Analysis, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, presented a summary of the results of the Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the United Nations Fish Agreement Moving from Words to Action, held in St. John's, Canada, from 1 to 5 May 2005.

The panellist commended the work done by UNCTAD in the area of investment, and encouraged it to continue its policy work, especially with regard to WTO based rules, such as those on trade related aspects of intellectual property rights and trade related investment measures, to ensure that the tools needed by developing countries to gain a foothold in non traditional export sectors are not removed.

Another panellist, from the International Telecommunication Union, presented a report on behalf of the members of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development (including the ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UN regional commissions ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP and ESCWA the UN ICT Task Force and the World Bank) who had co organized another WSIS thematic meeting on measuring the information society, held in Geneva from 7 to 9 February 2005.