Lazare Victor Ki-Zerbo Expert at La Francophonie

Business and Human Rights Corporate Social Responsability

Right to development  

Dr. Lazare KI-ZERBO is a human rights expert in human rights and development/business

with a 10 year experience at La Francophonie, an international intergovernmental

organization with 80 members states. He is currently special advisor to the President of the

Pan-African Center for Social Prospects (Benin) for the African initiative for peace

education through interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Dr. KI-ZERBO has also

contributed in the study and promotion of Pan-Africanism and Africa history.

Lazare has helped build capacities of governments and national institutions of human

rights institutions to sign and ratify international or regional human rights covenants in the

fields of prevention of torture, CSR and protection of disabled people. He has organized a

Pan-African meeting of stakeholders for the enforcement of the Optional protocol to the

Convention against torture, and a workshop with the UN High Commissioner for human

rights on the protection of persons with albinism. He has conducted a 5 year partnership

with civil society networks on their accredition to the International organization to la

Francophonie, human rights and business, and the protection of economic, cultural and

social rights.

Dr. Lazare KI-ZERBO has co-edited the booklet on the Human rights at the heart of

business at La Francophonie.

He as edited African studies in geography from below (CODESRIA, Dakar, 2009) and The

Pan-African ideal (forthcoming, 2015). He has translated Patrick Manning’s The African

diaspora into French (forthcoming, Presence africaine, Paris, 2015 )