Shifting the balance of power: Four priorities to protect communities, workers and the environment from transnational corporate harm is a new report outlining key elements in a new UK corporate accountability law to make it work for the people most affected by UK companies abusing human rights and the environment. Following years of campaigning for...
Evidence is clear that strong, well-funded regulators are crucial for public trust, fair economic growth, and environmental protection. When regulators are effective, people and the environment are protected, responsible businesses thrive and confidence in markets grows. CJC urges the UK government to move ahead in introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Act – mandatory...
A new report from Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) and Environment Africa Zambia uncovers the origins of lead contamination in Kabwe, its impacts on children, and the case for corporate accountability Kabwe, in Zambia, is the world’s most polluted town, following more than a century of mining, mostly by Anglo American. The town and its...
This report documents how well-known UK companies, financial institutions and public bodies have been and continue to be connected to human rights abuses, worker exploitation and environmental harm at home and abroad. These abuses are happening via the companies’ own operations, products and services, and across their global value chains. Access to justice for those...
The Law Commission has published an options paper for the Government on how it can improve the law to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account for committing serious crimes. You can read the summary of the opitions paper here.
This document aims to counter flawed or inaccurate claims regarding the introduction of mandatory due diligence legislation with liability for companies - and to prevent them from dominating the public and political debate.
The Alliance for Corporate Transparency project has published its '2019 Research Report' analysing the sustainability reports of 1000 companies pursuant to the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive.
This report by CORE and ICAR reveals that that a third of companies that have supplied uniforms for UK public sector workers, including the armed forces and prison officers, have not reported on what they are doing to tackle slavery in their supply chains.
This briefing summarises research from the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Essex on the gender impacts of land intensive corporate activities.
