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...
By Marilyn Croser, CORE Director Four things that jumped out at me from the Kiobel FoI documents that have been released to CORE: We have a problem A section on p.52 headed ‘Prosperity and support to British business’ in a briefing for Ministers on whether to submit an amicus brief in the Kiobel case includes...
The report from the parliamentary committee looking at the draft Modern Slavery bill has recommended legislative measures to address the issue in company supply chains. Key extracts: 169. ….The CORE Coalition warned us that the purely voluntary approach has not been effective at eliminating modern slavery. 170. We recognise the important role NGOs have played...
