For decades, the Kabwe mine was operated without adequate environmental safeguards, leading to lead contamination of the soil. Medical studies conducted over the past 45 years have shown extreme levels of lead in young children which has affected generations with lead encephalopathy and fatal lead poisoning. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment...
Surveillance technologies such as FinFisher have been used as a means to exercise political control and to spy on activists, human rights defenders, journalists and dissidents to stifle political opposition and undermine democratic development. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
Workers in Mae Sot face a weak rule of law, substandard wages and labour conditions, as well as employers denying workers the rights to join unions and exercise their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
The Kurya or Kuria people are the majority ethnic group of Tarime district. The North Mara mine severely impacted their way of life and led to brutal violence. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
Indigenous communities in the Amazon are continuously battling for land ownership and land use rights. Workers at cattle ranches were forced to work 17 hours a day and were left to live in deplorable conditions. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
Malawi is one of the top five tobacco leaf-producing countries in Africa. Farmers often work under exploitative and hazardous conditions. In certain tobacco producing regions, 57% of children are engaged in child labour on tobacco farms. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
Over a number of decades, oil spills from Shell’s operations led to devastating environmental impacts with disastrous consequences for the local residents. The spills contaminated the communities’ land and waterways which they relied on for farming, drinking, and washing. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
Despite serious red flags concerning Supermax’s labour practices and ongoing investigations, NHS Supply Chain named Supermax an approved supplier in December 2021. The US Government had previously introduced import bans on Supermax products based on its finding of forced labour. Find out how a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act could have made a difference.
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 new law is called for by UK civil society organisations, businesses, investors, and more than 100,000 people in the UK who...
