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...
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...
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 Corporate Justice Coalition strongly welcomes the new report on Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains, by the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Published today (24 July 2025) the new report builds on recommendations first made in 2017, calling for the government to introduce mandatory human rights due diligence and a “failure to prevent” mechanism...
In 2019, the Corporate Justice Coalition launched a campaign for a UK-specific Business, Human Rights and Environment Act (BHREA). This campaign emerged from the recognition that voluntary measures and existing regulations were insufficient to prevent and address corporate abuses of human rights and environmental standards. The BHREA seeks to prevent human rights and environmental abuse...
By Louise Eldridge At the end of October, I represented CAFOD at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland, where countries around the world were meeting to try to agree on a new UN Treaty to create binding rules to stop companies around the world from exploiting people and damaging the environment. CAFOD has for...
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...
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...
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...
