CJC is proud to announce that we have now recruited two new experienced trustees to our board. We welcome Barbara Davies Quy and Edward Gillespie to join the experienced trustees of CJC in order to support our work in driving forward corporate accountability and the campaign for a Business Human Rights and Environment Act in...
At this year’s Labour Party Conference, the Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC), in partnership with the Fabian Society, the Fairtrade Foundation, ActionAid and Friends of the Earth, hosted a packed-out event that made the case for bold new legislation to protect people and the planet from corporate harms. The event brought together international producers, parliamentarians and...
When workers’ rights are denied, whole families are affected. When rivers are polluted, our communities suffer. When big brands dodge their obligations, responsible UK businesses are undercut. However, as seen in recent statements from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Business and Trade Committee and the Government’s own trade strategy, there’s increasing recognition that...
“Good Business” matters to Northern Ireland and the UK’s Devolved Regions and Nations. In fact, of the MPs that have signed the Good Business Matters Pledge a great proportion come from Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. In fact, a full two thirds of sitting MPs from Northern Ireland have signalled their support for stronger laws to...
As friends and families across the country dug out their picnic blankets for National Picnic Week, the UK Coalition for Corporate Justice, joined by Labour MP Richard Burgon and Green MP Ellie Chowns, delivered a ‘hamper of harms’ to Number 10 and the Department for Business and Trade. With it they brought an urgent message...
The UK Government has committed to delivering a programme of change based on security, fairness and opportunity for all. This includes promises to ‘kickstart’ economic growth in a way that provides good jobs and better living standards, make the UK a clean energy superpower and build an NHS fit for the future. All these goals...
In November, Peace Brigades International UK (PBI UK) and Forest Peoples Programme organised a pivotal week of advocacy in the UK. The initiative brought together a cross-regional group of human rights defenders, Indigenous and Afro-descendent leaders and community representatives from six countries—Indonesia, Colombia, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, and the Wampís Nation in Peru. These individuals are on...
This October the Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC) will be jointly coordinating its third consecutive Labour Party Conference Fringe event, Green Prosperity and Human Rights: Preventing UK Corporate and Public Sector Supply Chain Abuses. The event will be co-hosted by the Labour Campaign for Human Rights and SME4Labour and chaired by James Jennion, Co-Director Labour...
At the end of May, we joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights to host the event “Levelling the playing field for UK companies: Mandatory supply chain due diligence to protect human rights and the environment” in Parliament. The event was set up to highlight to Parliamentarians the broad and strong support for a...
