A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: The Clear Case for a New Law
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...
Following extensive consultation with legal experts and rightsholders from around the world, CJC has published an model legal proposal that centres the needs of rightsholders and shows concretely, how the UK legal system can be strengthened to protect people and the planet from corporate harm.
Check out our FAQ about how our proposal for a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act works. This includes the type of harm it would addressed, the requirements it would put on public bodies and companies, enforcement, and how it would strengthen access to justice and remedy for victims.
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....
Have a look at our join submission to the Labour Party National Policy Forum. We outline the cost of inaction by not regulating responsible business conduct on human rights and the environment, how the Make Work Pay plan needs to address exploitative market power across supply chains and the implications of BHREA for the economy, women, and marginalised communities.
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...
Shifting the balance of power: Four priorities to protect communities, workers and the environment from transnational corporate harm is a new report outlining key elements in a new UK corporate accountability law to make it work for the people most affected by UK companies abusing human rights and the environment. Following years of campaigning for...
Evidence is clear that strong, well-funded regulators are crucial for public trust, fair economic growth, and environmental protection. When regulators are effective, people and the environment are protected, responsible businesses thrive and confidence in markets grows. CJC urges the UK government to move ahead in introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Act – mandatory...
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...
