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Pinned Post 6 key requirements to ensure that the Government’s Responsible Business Conduct Review leads to meaningful change.


The Corporate Justice Coalition welcomes the recent announcement that the UK Government is reviewing its approach to responsible business conduct – but warns that essential criteria must be met if it is to lead to action that will create meaningful outcomes for people and the planet.  Click here to read the joint statement. As part...

Pinned Post The picnic’s over: 145,000 signatures for stronger UK laws to hold companies accountable for harm to people and our planet. 

As friends and families across the country dug out their picnic blankets for National Picnic Week, the UK Coalition for Corporate Justice, joined by Labour MP Richard Burgon and Green MP Ellie Chowns, delivered a ‘hamper of harms’ to Number 10 and the Department for Business and Trade. With it they brought an urgent message...

Civil society groups call on the UK Government to shape a progressive engagement strategy at this critical juncture in the UN Binding Treaty on Human Rights process

12 October 2026: The undersigned 10 civil society organisations call on the UK Government to put human and environmental rights at the centre of a new engagement strategy, as part of the 12th UN open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) negotiation session for a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights (commonly known as...

CJC welcomes new PM and explains why new corporate accountability laws should be part of Labour’s strategy.

Yesterday, Monday 20 July, Andy Burnham was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of the UK. Read below the letter CJC and our partners sent to welcome him into office. In it, we explain why action to protect people and the planet from corporate harm aligns with his inentions to a.) Return to Labour’s...

CJC responds to the new Immigration and Asylum Bill.

Today, the Government’s new Immigration and Asylum Bill will have a second reading in parliament. Within it are proposed amendments to the company obligations currently laid out in section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act. These amendments would add specificity to existing supply chain transparency requirements for UK businesses, extend reporting obligations to public authorities...

Why we need a Business Human Rights and Environment Act to protect labour rights everywhere.


Click the link here or below to read the full briefing by CJC and UNISON and supported by the TUC.   The International Labour Organization’s core labour rights are human rights. In particular, freedom of assembly, freedom of association and collective bargaining are enabling rights: they allow workers to defend and secure many other rights at...

CJC Impact Report 2025


Over 200 pages of evidence submitted to the government, more than 145,000 signatures handed over to No.10, twelve new briefings and statements published and a 10% increase in our membership: it’s safe to say that 2025 was another busy year for the Corporate Justice Coalition. Click the link below to download our latest impact report...

Inequality by the Gallon – a new campaign from WaterWitness


We are, quite literally, being sold inequality by the gallon. Every product in your supermarket trolley took water to produce. Fresh fruit, vegetables, coffee, chocolate: all of it arrives on UK shelves through supply chains where water use is neither sustainable nor fair. Instead, the farmers and workers growing and harvesting the goods that stock...

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