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Letter to the Financial Times: A golden opportunity to end corporate impunity

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CORE, Corruption Watch and Transparency International UK’s letter, published in the FT, argues that it is virtually impossible in the UK under its present laws to prosecute large companies for economic crime and human rights abuses. We stress that the UK’s laws on corporate liability urgently need reform, in order to bring an end to...

September 17th, 2018 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Letter to the Guardian: Pay Ratios on their Own Not Enough

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CORE, the TUC, ShareAction, the High Pay Centre, the Equality Trust and CAFOD have written to the Guardian, penning that while the publication of pay ratios will make it easier to hold directors to account for excessive pay inequalities, fundamental reforms to the UK corporate governance are needed. Transparency will not lead to more equal...

June 18th, 2018 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

UK Court of Appeal Rules Royal Dutch Shell Not Liable for Nigeria Oil Spills

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40,000 villagers from the Niger Delta are now set to take their oil pollution case to the UK Supreme Court in a long-running legal battle. Read the full press release >>

February 14th, 2018 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Letter to the Guardian: Carillion's Collapse Must Lead to Corporate Governance Reforms

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In the wake of the Carillion collapse, CORE wrote to the Guardian calling for wholesale corporate governance reforms. Read the letter »

January 19th, 2018 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Call for an EU collective redress mechanism to protect all fundamental rights, not only for consumers

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CORE has signed a joint statement calling for an EU wide collective redress mechanism for victims of corporate harm. The statement is also signed by ECCJ, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Health and Environment Advocates, European Environmental Bureau, Birdlife, ClientEath and the International Federation for Human Rights. Read the Joint Statement »

January 10th, 2018 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

New economic crime centre is welcome but fails to address glaring holes

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CORE, alongside Traidcraft Exchange, Global Witness, and Corruption Watch have written to the Guardian in response to the Home Office’s announcement on a new economic crime centre. Read the letter »

December 12th, 2017 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Modern slavery: top companies fail to name supply chain risks

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Top companies lack transparency about known risks of modern slavery in their supply chains, a new report from CORE Coalition finds. Download the report »

October 3rd, 2017 | by Ayesha Carmouche

UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee calls for new laws to stop company human rights abuse

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CORE welcomes call from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights for laws to prevent child labour and other abuses linked to British companies.

April 5th, 2017 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

UK corporate liability regime ‘not fit for purpose in the 21st century’

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Criminal law reform is needed if Theresa May is to deliver on her ambition of getting tough on irresponsible behaviour in big business, a group of NGOs have said ahead of a House of Lords debate tomorrow (9 March).

March 8th, 2017 | by Ayesha Carmouche