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...
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...
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...
Calls for McDonalds to act after accusations of gender-based harassment.
The UK Government’s research on the economic impact of the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights 19 December 2025: The Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC) welcomes the UK Government’s renewed interest in meaningfully engaging with the UN Legally Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights and the recognition that responsible business conduct is a...
Momentum builds for stronger UK legislation to protect against human rights and environmental harms in UK value chains The IASC has today (16 December 2025) published a proposal for a new mandatory human rights due diligence law. Whilst this proposal contains useful elements, it falls short of the comprehensive measures being developed and championed by...
On Sunday 23 November, the Government published a new Critical Minerals Strategy for the UK. This strategy has been long-awaited: back in April, CJC joined partners in calling for the Government to centre justice and accountability in UK critical minerals policy. In this briefing, we made the case for a strategy that would ensure demand reduction, economic and supply chain justice and corporate responsibility. Unfortunately, the strategy released over the weekend...
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), British Retail Consortium (BRC), Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC), and Trades Union Congress (TUC) have issued a joint statement on the Government’s response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) report on Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains. Earlier this year, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) recommended that the...
CJC is proud to announce that we have now recruited two new experienced trustees to our board. We welcome Barbara Davies Quy and Edward Gillespie to join the experienced trustees of CJC in order to support our work in driving forward corporate accountability and the campaign for a Business Human Rights and Environment Act in...
