UK businesses, investors call for new human rights and environmental due diligence law
49 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...
September 9th, 2022
September 9th, 2022
| by CJC Team
Legal opinion says Boohoo could have been liable for human rights breaches under a new UK law
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...
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
Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister on World Amazon Day 2021
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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Corporate Justice Coalition Response to Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance: July 2021
CJC welcomes the opportunity to respond to the BEIS department consultation. This response covers chapters 5, 6 and 11 of the report. Read full response in the attached document below.
Joint Statement: United Nations Guiding Principles ten-year anniversary
A decade ago this month, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously welcomed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The UNGPs set out an authoritative framework for state duties and business responsibilities towards fulfilling human rights. They highlight the essential role that access to remedy can play in providing justice to...
