We are, quite literally, being sold inequality by the gallon. Every product in your supermarket trolley took water to produce. Fresh fruit, vegetables, coffee, chocolate: all of it arrives on UK shelves through supply chains where water use is neither sustainable nor fair. Instead, the farmers and workers growing and harvesting the goods that stock...
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...
This parliamentary briefing argues that we urgently need a new UK law to hold companies to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global value chains. A Business, Human Rights and Environment Act (BHREA) would: Plug the serious legal gaps that enable companies to profit from the UK’s...
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...
Household names including Nestlé, PepsiCo, Wilmar and Unilever and associated global financial institutions and investors continue to ‘turn a blind eye’ to human rights abuses in their palm oil supply chains, finds a new report compiled by TuK INDONESIA, PUSAKA, Walhi, and Forest Peoples Programme. The report highlights systemic social and environmental problems that continue...
Holding Businesses to Account on Human Rights Abuses
FAQs: Understand the Dutch Child Labour and Due Diligence Law
Brazil is losing ground on eradicating modern slavery from its supply chains. Lessons learned from the implementation of the UK Modern Slavery Act could be the starting point for future legal developments in South America’s largest country, says Caio Borges from leading Brazilian NGO, Conectas Human Rights.
50 people from NGOs, academia and law firms gathered at The Foundry in London on Wednesday 13th February for CORE’s annual partners' meeting. Below is a brief summary of the very wide-ranging expert presentations given on the day.
