Corporate Justice Coalition

“Brew it Fair”: Creating a fairer future for the people behind the tea we drink.

Partner resource

Tea is a global industry employing around 13 million people, with production split between large estates and smallholder farmers—who account for about 60% of global output. Despite their critical role, tea growers and workers face significant challenges due to an unequal distribution of profits, exploitative business models, and a power imbalance in the supply chain....

July 7th, 2025 | by Fairtrade Foundation

Who pays the price? The cost of HSBC’s climate damages

Partner resource

The UK Government has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, yet UK financial institutions like HSBC continue to fund industries that exacerbate the climate crisis and violate human rights. Notably, HSBC’s financing of fossil fuel projects and industrial agriculture continues to drive climate destruction, affecting communities across the globe, particularly women and girls in...

July 2nd, 2025 | by ActionAid

A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: The Clear Case for a New Law

Briefing

This parliamentary briefing argues that we urgently need a new UK law to hold companies to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global value chains. A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act (BHREA) would: Plug the serious legal gaps that enable companies to profit from the UK’s...

February 26th, 2025

Wide range of civil society organisations call on the UK to prioritise human rights in UN Treaty Negotiations

Briefing

5 December, 2024: As the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) enters into the 10th negotiation session for a legally binding treaty on business and human rights, we, the undersigned organisations, call on the UK government to constructively engage in these treaty negotiations while simultaneously pursuing mandatory legislation on a national level to fulfil its duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including by businesses.

December 6th, 2024

Briefing

Serious human rights abuses and environmental harms are still present in UK supply chains. The UK must urgently introduce a new law requiring all businesses and the public sector to prevent, address and remedy any harm to human rights, including labour rights, and the environment in their global value chains.[1] The Bill would: Enhance corporate...

April 30th, 2024

A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: The environmental case for a new law

Briefing

This parliamentary briefing explains how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act would protect the environment and contribute to achieving a just transition in global value chains. The briefing is part of a series of parliamentary briefings on a new Business, Human Rights and Environment Act. For more information, see this briefing on the general...

April 17th, 2024

Bridging the gap: How could a UK Business, Human Rights and Environment Act have made a difference?

Report

This report documents how well-known UK companies, financial institutions and public bodies have been and continue to be connected to human rights abuses, worker exploitation and environmental harm at home and abroad. These abuses are happening via the companies’ own operations, products and services, and across their global value chains. Access to justice for those...

November 28th, 2023

Cerrejón’s open pit mine (Colombia)

Briefing

Cerrejón’s mining operations have led to the dispossession and displacement of 35 Wayúu Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities from their ancestral land, at times by brutal police evictions. The companies have been continuously expanding the mining operations and diverting streams used by the local communities throughout its operation. In 2005, Cerrejón extended its rail line and...

November 28th, 2023

Land-grabbing for palm oil (Liberia)

Briefing

Communities in Liberia claim that Equatorial Palm Oil’s (EPO’s) oil palm plantations have encroached on their land, which was illegally cleared for plantation, and that activities went ahead without their consent. As a result, they have lost their livelihoods, and community members who protested faced violence and intimidation. Benefits promised by EPO to the community,...

November 28th, 2023

Resources

“Brew it Fair”: Creating a fairer future for the people behind the tea we drink.

Who pays the price? The cost of HSBC’s climate damages

A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: The Clear Case for a New Law

Wide range of civil society organisations call on the UK to prioritise human rights in UN Treaty Negotiations

Second Reading of Baroness Young of Hornsey’s Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill in the House of Lords on 10 May 2024

A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: The environmental case for a new law

Bridging the gap: How could a UK Business, Human Rights and Environment Act have made a difference?

Cerrejón’s open pit mine (Colombia)

Land-grabbing for palm oil (Liberia)