CORE’s submission to the consultation on the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s ‘Reforming Regulation Initiative’ recommends that the UK government introduce a new corporate duty to prevent negative human rights and environmental impacts, mandating businesses to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence, and holding UK companies accountable if they fail to prevent harmful impacts...
CORE, 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”. Read the full submission here.
CORE has made a submission to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) initial consultation on recommendations made by the Kingman Independent Review of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). In the submission we welcome attempts in the Review to improve the efficacy of shareholders’ and auditors’ oversight, but highlight that inherent flaws mean that...
CORE, 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...
CORE’s submission to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy consultation on Insolvency and Corporate Governance holds that companies will only avoid taking the risks the lead to insolvency when directors can be held to account for their failings. Moreover, the corporate governance framework should be restructured to ensure companies are run in the interests...
CORE’s submission to the Treasury Select Committee Economic Crime inquiry recommends that the Government extends its ‘failure to prevent’ model to cover all economic crime and establishes a central database of companies that have faced criminal sanction or are under investigation. It also recommends that the Committee push the Government to indicate when it intends to publish its...
CORE’s submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee’s inquiry on the Government’s ‘Global Britain’ policy argues that human rights must be at the heart of any reinvigorated foreign policy, particularly in the face of temptations to neglect existing standards to secure trade deals as the UK leaves the EU. Download the submission »
CORE and Amnesty International UK have made a submission in response to the UN Working Group’s call for inputs to a report on ensuring respect for human rights in the context of state involvement in ‘economic diplomacy’ and trade and investment promotion. Our submission focuses in particular on the policies of the Department for International...
CORE and Amnesty International UK have made a joint submission to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) consultation on proposed revisions to the Corporate Governance Code and Stewardship Code. We argue that the proposed revisions to the Corporate Governance Code take steps in the right direction, but do not go far enough. The submission addresses the...
