The picnic’s over: 145,000 signatures for stronger UK laws to hold companies accountable for harm to people and our planet.
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...
Yesterday, Monday 20 July, Andy Burnham was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of the UK. Read below the letter CJC and our partners sent to welcome him into office. In it, we explain why action to protect people and the planet from corporate harm aligns with his inentions to a.) Return to Labour’s...
Click the link here or below to read the full briefing by CJC and UNISON The International Labour Organization’s core labour rights are human rights. In particular, freedom of assembly, freedom of association and collective bargaining are enabling rights: they allow workers to defend and secure many other rights at work and in wider society....
Over 200 pages of evidence submitted to the government, more than 145,000 signatures handed over to No.10, twelve new briefings and statements published and a 10% increase in our membership: it’s safe to say that 2025 was another busy year for the Corporate Justice Coalition. Click the link below to download our latest impact report...
We are, quite literally, being sold inequality by the gallon. Every product in your supermarket trolley took water to produce. Fresh fruit, vegetables, coffee, chocolate: all of it arrives on UK shelves through supply chains where water use is neither sustainable nor fair. Instead, the farmers and workers growing and harvesting the goods that stock...
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...
