Corporate Justice Coalition

Why the UK Needs a strong Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: Lessons from the EU’s advances and shortcomings

Analysis

In 2019, the Corporate Justice Coalition launched a campaign for a UK-specific Business, Human Rights and Environment Act (BHREA). This campaign emerged from the recognition that voluntary measures and existing regulations were insufficient to prevent and address corporate abuses of human rights and environmental standards. The BHREA seeks to prevent human rights and environmental abuse...

November 19th, 2024 | by CJC Team

Corporate Justice Coalition Welcomes New Director Eleanor Rosenbach

Press releases

The Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Eleanor Rosenbach as its new Director, effective from May 7th, 2024. In her role as Director, Eleanor will lead the CJC in its mission to create a world where corporate impunity for abuses of human rights and environmental harm is a thing of...

May 1st, 2024 | by CJC Team

Press release: Four in five UK adults support new laws to tackle environmental harm and human rights abuses in company supply chains

Press releases

LONDON | New research shows that four in five adults in the UK support new laws requiring companies to prevent serious environmental harm and human rights abuses in their operations or supply chains. The survey of 2,124 UK adults by the polling company YouGov, released today (17 April) by the Corporate Justice Coalition and Friends...

April 17th, 2024 April 17th, 2024 | by CJC Team

CJC to Coordinate Third Consecutive Labour Conference Fringe Event

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This October the Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC) will be jointly coordinating its third consecutive Labour Party Conference Fringe event, Green Prosperity and Human Rights: Preventing UK Corporate and Public Sector Supply Chain Abuses. The event will be co-hosted by the Labour Campaign for Human Rights and SME4Labour and chaired by James Jennion, Co-Director Labour...

August 16th, 2023 | by CJC Team

Time for change – MPs from across parties turn out for CJC event

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At the end of May, we joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights to host the event “Levelling the playing field for UK companies: Mandatory supply chain due diligence to protect human rights and the environment” in Parliament. The event was set up to highlight to Parliamentarians the broad and strong support for a...

June 16th, 2023 | by CJC Team

“Rule for corporations, rights for people!” – activists take call for action to UN in Geneva

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By Louise Eldridge At the end of October, I represented CAFOD at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland, where countries around the world were meeting to try to agree on a new UN Treaty to create binding rules to stop companies around the world from exploiting people and damaging the environment. CAFOD has for...

November 9th, 2022 | by CJC Team

UK businesses, investors call for new human rights and environmental due diligence law

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49 leading businesses and investors have called on the UK Government to introduce a new legal requirement for companies and investors to carry out human rights and environmental due diligence. A group including Microsoft, Tesco, Primark and Nestlé said: “Legislation can contribute to a competitive level playing field, increase legal certainty about the standards expected...

September 9th, 2022 September 9th, 2022 | by CJC Team

Press Release: YouGov poll shows 4 in 5 of the British public want law to prevent business human rights and environmental harm – businesses and investors agree

Press releases

(Polling results attached in full below) • According to a new YouGov poll, 87% of the British public support new laws to prevent businesses from exploiting people in their supply chains; 83% of the British public support new laws that would force companies to ensure their supply chains do no avoidable damage to the environment....

September 2nd, 2022 September 2nd, 2022 | by CJC Team

Investor letter for UK Human Rights Due Diligence

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39 investors sign a letter calling on the UK government to bring forward a ‘Business, Human Rights and Environment Act’ to mandate all companies to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence. The investors include Jupiter, Ethos, BMO and Legal & General Asset Management. In total, the investors represent £4.5 trillion in assets under management...

September 2nd, 2022 September 2nd, 2022 | by CJC Team