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CORE welcomes government corporate governance consultation

Update

CORE welcomes the government’s announcement that it is considering requiring private companies to report on diversity, greenhouse gas emissions, and social and community issues. CORE and our partner organisations have been pressing for the government to make private companies publish this information since 2014, when new European reporting rules were under discussion. Any irresponsible company...

November 29th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Corporate governance

Changing the rules to end corporate impunity

Comment

An important bill aimed at tackling the big issue of corruption is currently making its way through Parliament. It is called the Criminal Finances Bill. Money laundering, recovering the proceeds of crime, tax evasion and terrorist funding are among the key targets for Home Secretary Amber Rudd. In her 10 November speech to the Financial...

November 21st, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Corporate crime

Landmark Danish NCP conclusion on menswear chain owner – but what now?

Comment

This week the Danish National Contact Point for the OECD guidelines on multinational enterprises cast a damning light on Scandinavian company PWT Group for its failure to adequately assess dangers linked to the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 24 April 2013, killing 1,138 people and injuring more than 2,000 others....

November 9th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Modern slavery and labour rights

CORE gives evidence to Joint Committee on Human Rights session on human rights and business

Update

In June the Joint Committee on Human Rights announced a new inquiry into human rights and business. The inquiry is looking at the government’s progress on implementing the UNGPs through its National Action Plan (NAP), published in 2013 and updated in May 2016. This follows an earlier JCHR inquiry into business and human rights conducted in...

July 27th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Parliament and elections

Open-access registry for the Modern Slavery Act critical & urgent, say key stakeholders

Update

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires commercial organisations operating in the UK with an annual turnover above £36m to produce a statement setting out the steps they are taking to address and prevent the risk of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains. A number of key stakeholders that were influential in securing the...

July 20th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Modern slavery and labour rights transparency

UK publishes updated Business and Human Rights Action Plan

Update

The UK’s updated BHR action plan was published on 12 May, following a written ministerial statement in Parliament. Visible, high-level political endorsement sends a powerful signal to business so it’s a pity that there’s no Ministerial Foreword included in the update, but despite this the plan clearly reasserts the UNGPs and the government’s expectation that...

May 12th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Parliament and elections

CORE Response to The Non-Financial Reporting Directive consultation

Update

Briefing

A response to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills consultation on the Non-Financial Reporting Directive: A call for views on effective reporting alongside proposals to implement EU requirements. Download the report >>

April 19th, 2016 April 19th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

ESG EU investors

NGOs welcome adoption of new Council of Europe Recommendation on Human Rights and Business

Update

On 3 March, after a two year negotiation process, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a set of Recommendations to its member States on Business and Human Rights. The European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) participated in...

March 14th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

EU and Brexit

NGOs publish new guidance for companies on reporting under the Modern Slavery Act

Update

In autumn, following our successful campaign for the introduction of the Transparency in Supply Chains (TISC) clause into the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we participated in discussions designed to inform the content of the accompanying Home Office statutory guidance for commercial organisations required to report under the new law. While the Home Office guidance gives...

March 7th, 2016 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Modern slavery and labour rights transparency