On November 12 and 13, 2014, DPLF’ senior program officer Daniel Cerqueira participated in an event hosted by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment of the Columbia University named Raising the Bar: Home Country Efforts to Regulate Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development. The event aimed at discussing the role of home countries in regulating the activities of companies operating abroad to facilitate sustainable outcomes. Directors of International Affairs departments of transnational mining companies Rio Tinto and Vale; Ministers and other high officials of the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Ecuador, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa; representatives of the European Union; the Director of UNCTAD and other United Nations’ agencies and the OECD; scholars and advocates participated in the four panels of the conference. On November 13, 2014, Daniel Cerqueira lectured on a panel regarding multilateral venues to address home states’ policies regulating foreign investments. His speech addressed how international human rights obligations must be taken into account in the design and implementation of these efforts.