Corporate Justice Coalition

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

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36 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...

October 25th, 2021 October 25th, 2021 | by Mark

Legal opinion says Boohoo could have been liable for human rights breaches under a new UK law

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A new legal review by Tim Otty QC and Naina Patel of Blackstone Chambers looks into Boohoo’s Leicester supply chain and finds the fast fashion brand could have been held liable under a UK mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law called for by rights groups. In the review, it is argued that, “Boohoo...

October 22nd, 2021

Principal Elements of a UK Corporate Duty to Prevent Adverse Human Rights and Environmental Impacts – a ‘Failure to Prevent’ law.

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A coalition of civil society organisations is calling for the introduction a new UK ‘mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence’ law, based on the duties to prevent tax evasion and bribery found in the Criminal Finances Act 2017 and the Bribery Act 2010 – as called for by the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human...

October 19th, 2021 | by ABColombia and Partners

Open Letter to World Leaders

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Over 180 indigenous peoples’ organisations, civil society groups, including human rights, environmental and conservation organisations and human rights, land and environmental defenders, as well as academics and experts from 58 countries worldwide have issued an Open Letter to World Leaders, calling on them to ensure human rights are at the centre of all environmental policy....

October 18th, 2021 | by Andrew Lees Trust and Partners

Parliamentary Briefing: UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations, October 2021

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Joint-NGO briefing from the UK Working Group on the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations. Between 25-29th October 2021, governments will meet in Geneva to discuss the latest draft of the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights. This is a proposed treaty that seeks to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities...

October 12th, 2021 | by Trades Union Congress and Partners

Brazil-UK briefing for House of Lords debate on forest risk commodities

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A new briefing from Client Earth, “Endorsing the end of the Amazon: Critical weaknesses in the UK Government’s proposed forest risk commodities framework and how to fix them”, has been released in advance of the House of Lords debate on Forest-risk commodities this Wednesday, 15th September 2021. Prepared with the input of Brazilian organisations and...

September 13th, 2021 | by Client Earth

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Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister on World Amazon Day 2021

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A coalition of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples’ groups, scientists and academics is urging the Prime Minister to act on tropical deforestation and human rights abuses. In Brazil, the Congress is currently considering new legislation that would legalise illegal land grabbing in the Amazon. Such destruction of the Amazon has dire implications for the Amazon’s Indigenous peoples...

September 6th, 2021

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Protecting our common home: Land and environmental human rights defenders in Latin America

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A new report from Cafod, describes current human rights abuses faced by land and environmental human rights defenders across six countries in Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru. It highlights key issues facing land and environmental Human Rights Defenders and demonstrates that these issues are not isolated but form a pattern of...

July 20th, 2021 | by CAFOD

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Making Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Work for Homeworkers

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New Briefing from Homeworkers Worldwide UK discusses how the situation of precarious women workers such as homeworkers is carefully considered by policy makers when translating human rights due diligence into law. This includes some of the risks that such legislation could create and consideration of how best to ensure its impact is positive.

July 12th, 2021 | by Homeworkers Worldwide UK

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