This submission relates to proposed new clause (NC5) in the Environment Bill: “Environmental and human rights due diligence: duty to publish draft legislation.”
CJC, Amnesty International UK, Anti-Slavery International, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Christian Aid, FLEX, Traidcraft Exchange and UNISON have submitted a joint response to the Government’s consultation on establishing a new Single Enforcement Body for employment rights. We focus primarily on section 4.4., “supply chains”.
Our joint response argues the Modern Slavery Act 2015's 'Transparency in Supply Chains' provision has fallen far short of its objective to secure greater corporate transparency on modern slavery.
This briefing highlights our priorities with regard to improving the effectiveness of transparency in supply chains and urges the Government to go further and introduce human rights due diligence legislation.
CJC, Amnesty International UK, Anti-Slavery International, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Fairtrade Foundation, Freedom United and ShareAction have made a joint submission to the Home Office’s commissioned independent review of the Modern Slavery Act. We recommend that that the Act is strengthened through a) improved monitoring and enforcement mechanisms and b) a revision...
This briefing, prepared by CORE and Oxfam, broadly welcomes the new CEO pay ratio requirements, but urges Peers to call on the Government to set out a longer-term vision for the UK corporate governance framework and review s.172 of the Companies Act 2006 as part of these more fundamental reforms.
This briefing provides an overview of the current requirements of the Transparency in Supply Chains Clause in the Act, while documenting existing challenges of corporate reporting on modern slavery and victims' access to justice.
This briefing was prepared ahead of the Second Reading of Lord McColl’s Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill. It draws attention to the legal challenges modern slavery victims face in accessing remedy for the harms inflicted on them. In an effort to empower victims, it advocates for the introduction of specific civil wrongs of trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced...
