“Stitched up” and “abandoned by fashion”: New Amnesty International reports reveal abuse in the garment industry
Two new reports by Amnesty International document widespread anti-union abuse in the garment industry, manifesting in abuses of workers’ rights, harassment and violence by employers. The reports — ‘Stitched Up: Denial of Freedom of Association for Garment Workers in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka’ and ‘Abandoned by Fashion: The urgent need for fashion...
Protecting and Realising the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant peoples and Local Communities in the Context of Business and Human Rights
Protecting and Realising the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant peoples and Local Communities in the Context of Business and Human Rights is a new position paper co-authored by Indigenous, Afro-descendant, local community and civil society leaders who stand up daily against business harms to their human rights and the environment – harms connected to UK...
“Brew it Fair”: Creating a fairer future for the people behind the tea we drink.
Tea is a global industry employing around 13 million people, with production split between large estates and smallholder farmers—who account for about 60% of global output. Despite their critical role, tea growers and workers face significant challenges due to an unequal distribution of profits, exploitative business models, and a power imbalance in the supply chain....
Who pays the price? The cost of HSBC’s climate damages
The UK Government has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, yet UK financial institutions like HSBC continue to fund industries that exacerbate the climate crisis and violate human rights. Notably, HSBC’s financing of fossil fuel projects and industrial agriculture continues to drive climate destruction, affecting communities across the globe, particularly women and girls in...
Joint response to the Law Commission Consultation: Corporate Criminal Liability
Attached is the joint submission that CJC and Traidcraft Exchange filed to the Law Commission consultation on corporate criminal liability. Its co-authored by Stuart Biggs (Barrister at Three Raymond Buildings) and Rachel Chambers (Professor in Business Law at the University of Connecticut). In the submission we make the case that the Law Commission’s review...
New UK law won’t halt forest destruction or protect human rights
Written by Clare Oxborrow at Friends of the Earth Commodity supply chains are trashing forests and trampling https://naturheilpraxis-hauri.ch/ human rights. Clare Oxborrow explains why the government’s new Environment Act will fail to protect communities and why it must take effective action to regulate UK companies. Read full blog below.
A new report from Amnesty International UK detailing JCB’s failure to conduct proper human rights due diligence on the end use of its products, representing a failure to respect human rights. For many years JCB’s heavy machinery has been used in situations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) where war crimes and human rights violations have been...
Parliamentary Briefing: UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations, October 2021
Joint-NGO briefing from the UK Working Group on the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations. Between 25-29th October 2021, governments will meet in Geneva to discuss the latest draft of the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights. This is a proposed treaty that seeks to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities...
October 12th, 2021
| by Trades Union Congress and Partners
Brazil-UK briefing for House of Lords debate on forest risk commodities
A new briefing from Client Earth, “Endorsing the end of the Amazon: Critical weaknesses in the UK Government’s proposed forest risk commodities framework and how to fix them”, has been released in advance of the House of Lords debate on Forest-risk commodities this Wednesday, 15th September 2021. Prepared with the input of Brazilian organisations and...
