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Labour Party Manifesto 2015: key points on corporate accountability

Analysis

The full pdf document is available here. Key points as follows: Corporate governance Britain’s economy is being held back by the culture of short-termism, which is a major obstacle to the development of productive businesses and industries. We will reform corporate governance to protect our leading firms from the pressure to put tomorrow’s share price...

April 16th, 2015 | by Marilyn Croser

Core achievements: a review of 2014

Update

The last five years have seen a crisis of trust in business following scandals around tax avoidance and excessive executive pay, and revelations of shocking practices in UK company supply chains. CORE and our partner organisations work together to campaign for laws and policies to make UK companies more accountable and to prevent them from...

January 27th, 2015 | by James Whiting

Stocking up for Christmas: tackling slavery in our supply chains

Press releases

Written by Lord David Alton of Liverpool Read the press release >>

December 18th, 2014 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Modern Slavery Bill – social media push

Analysis

In recent months, we have teamed up with a number of human rights and anti-slavery groups to lobby hard around the Modern Slavery Bill on transparency in supply chains. To support the campaign we’re organising a social media push ahead of the critical committee hearing in the Lords on Wednesday 10 December 2014. We are calling on all...

December 8th, 2014 | by James Whiting

Harnessing supply chains to serve up healthy sustainable diets

Comment

Tweet Guest blog: by Jane Wallis-Jones, WWF-UK I was struck by an article last week[i] and its associated report[ii] on overcoming the obesity epidemic. It unquestionably states that this enormous societal challenge cannot be faced using a piecemeal approach. One of the main findings of the report is that: “No individual sectors in society, whether they are governments,...

November 25th, 2014 | by James Whiting

Investors support inclusion of supply chain reporting in the Modern Slavery Bill

Press releases

Investors with a total of £940 billion in assets under management are backing the Government’s recent commitment to include proportionate supply chain reporting requirements in the Modern Slavery Bill.

November 18th, 2014 | by James Whiting

Overconsumption: 'Tis the reason to be sorry

Comment

Tweet Guest blog: by Richard Dyer, Friends of the Earth Photo credit: Ulet Ifansati / Friends of the Earth Reducing resource consumption: Good for business, people and the planet I hate to say it but it’s almost that time of year again; you know… when that bearded old chap in the red suit descends from above,...

November 13th, 2014 | by James Whiting

Loosening the chains: Modern Slavery Bill passes through the Commons

Update

Tweet Earlier this week the Modern Slavery Bill completed its passage through the House of Commons. The government’s amendment on supply chains was accepted without a vote and is now on the face of the Bill. Several people spoke in the debate, some of whom reflected points from the coalition’s briefing. There was a consensus across...

November 7th, 2014 | by James Whiting

Tax justice walking tour: How unfair is Mayfair?

Comment

Tweet Guest blog: by Ema Jackson, ActionAid At ActionAid we’ve been campaigning for tax justice and exposing how big businesses dodge their taxes since 2008. We’ve come up with a fun new way to share what we’ve learnt: a tax justice walking tour around Mayfair. Tax dodging by big business has become big news, but it’s...

November 6th, 2014 | by James Whiting