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Submission to the Joint Committee on the draft Modern Slavery bill
CORE welcomes the draft Bill which presents an important opportunity to introduce much-needed legislative measures as a necessary first step to improving corporate transparency and accountability for the most serious labour rights violations in the supply chain.
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Statement re. UK government position on EU Council negotiations on proposal for disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies and groups – 2013/0110(COD)
The EU Council is currently negotiating this important proposal on how the largest companies report. We consider this reform a vital step towards improving corporate accountability and transparency, and implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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Good Business? Analysis of the UK Government Action Plan on Business & Human Rights
The UK broke new ground in becoming the first State to produce a National Action Plan for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. In this new analysis, CORE identifies the positive proposals, the missing elements and some of the policies that are threatening to undermine the government’s stated commitment...
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Comments on ‘Exposure Draft: Guidance on the Strategic Report’ (Financial Reporting Council)
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Response to the Financial Reporting Council Exposure Draft: Guidance on the Strategic Report
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Submission to ‘EU Proposals to reform non-financial reporting: call for evidence’ (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
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Submission to ‘Corporate responsibility: a call for views’ (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
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Submission to ‘Transparency and trust: enhancing the transparency of UK company ownership and increasing trust in UK business’ (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
This briefing by CORE and the Environmental Law Service relates to the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skill’s Company Ownership Transparency and Trust Discussion Paper, Q.39: The merits of strengthening responsibilities of banking directors by amending the directors’ duties in CA06 to create a primary duty to promote financial stability over the interests of shareholders.