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The picnic’s over: it’s time for stronger UK laws to hold companies accountable for harm to people and our planet.

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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...

June 19th, 2025 | by CJC Team

How can growth work for everyone? – CJC partners host parliamentary event

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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...

January 30th, 2025 | by CJC Team

Indigenous and environmental defenders call on the UK to protect their land and livelihoods

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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...

December 20th, 2024 | by CJC Team

CJC to Coordinate Third Consecutive Labour Conference Fringe Event

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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...

August 16th, 2023 | by CJC Team

Time for change – MPs from across parties turn out for CJC event

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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...

June 16th, 2023 | by CJC Team

UK businesses, investors call for new human rights and environmental due diligence law

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49 leading businesses and investors have called on the UK Government to introduce a new legal requirement for companies and investors to carry out human rights and environmental due diligence. A group including Microsoft, Tesco, Primark and Nestlé said: “Legislation can contribute to a competitive level playing field, increase legal certainty about the standards expected...

September 9th, 2022 September 9th, 2022 | by CJC Team

Investor letter for UK Human Rights Due Diligence

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39 investors sign a letter calling on the UK government to bring forward a ‘Business, Human Rights and Environment Act’ to mandate all companies to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence. The investors include Jupiter, Ethos, BMO and Legal & General Asset Management. In total, the investors represent £4.5 trillion in assets under management...

September 2nd, 2022 September 2nd, 2022 | by CJC Team

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

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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

40,000 people from the Niger Delta take on Shell at the UK Supreme Court

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This week the UK Supreme Court heard a landmark case against Shell brought by 40,000 people from the Ogale and Bille communities of the Niger Delta, in Nigeria.

June 23rd, 2020 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

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