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UK Law Commission: Options Paper includes criminal offence of failure to prevent human rights abuses

Analysis

Written by Rachel Chambers The failure to hold to account criminally UK companies (and companies which operate in the UK and/or have UK listings) which are complicit in human rights abuses abroad stands in stark contrast to more promising developments in countries such as France, with the Lafarge case, and Sweden with the Lundin case. Cases such as...

August 23rd, 2022 | by CJC Team

UK efforts to reduce global deforestation undermined by ignoring indigenous peoples’ rights

Analysis

Comment

by Gabriela Quijano at Forest Peoples Programme On 10 November 2021, the UK government passed into law the UK Environment Act. While this law is primarily concerned with environmental protection within the UK, Schedule 17 attempts to tackle illegal deforestation overseas. Under this Schedule, certain businesses will be required to prove that their products are...

April 20th, 2022 | by CJC Team

Replacing the corporate ‘architecture of impunity’ with an ‘architecture of accountability’ – what’s the UN Binding Treaty got to do with it?

Comment

Tuesday 15th March 2022. On the International Day of Action to advance the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations – the Corporate Justice Coalition is standing with civil society groups worldwide to mark the occasion and join calls for an end to corporate impunity. The idea that we need to hold increasingly powerful corporations and...

March 15th, 2022 | by Ligia Baracat

Legal opinion says Boohoo could have been liable for human rights breaches under a new UK law

Analysis

A new legal review by Tim Otty QC and Naina Patel of Blackstone Chambers looks into Boohoo’s Leicester supply chain and finds the fast fashion brand could have been held liable under a UK mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law called for by rights groups. In the review, it is argued that, “Boohoo...

October 22nd, 2021 October 22nd, 2021 | by CJC Team

Protecting collective land rights through corporate due diligence: key principles

Comment

Lan Mei, Lawyer at the Forest Peoples Programme, explains a new guide to assist policymakers and businesses in understanding key elements of effective due diligence on collective land rights, Stepping up: protecting collective land rights through corporate due diligence. The growing momentum towards mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) is welcome news for...

July 13th, 2021 | by Lan Mei

Nigerian communities’ oil pollution claims against Shell to go to trial

Update

Some 50,000 claimants from the Ogale and Bille communities of the Niger Delta will have their day in the UK courts against Shell, after the Oil Major opted to proceed to trial in a case focused on catastrophic environmental destruction in southern Nigeria. The trial will doubtless grab media attention after the recent landmark win against...

July 12th, 2021 | by CJC Team

L7 to the G7: the need for mandatory due diligence in a post-pandemic world. Guest Blog.

Comment

Stephen Russell, International Policy Officer for Business and Human Rights at the TUC, draws from the recently published L7 statement to the G7 to highlight the call that mandatory due diligence obligations on multinational companies are an essential aspect of “building back fairer”. Trade unions have released their statement ahead of the G7 summit (11-13...

June 11th, 2021 | by Stephen Russell

G7 human rights and environmental due diligence L7

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