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17 Apr 2024

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17 Apr 2024

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26 Feb 2024

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Blog by Evie Clarke, Corporate Justice Coalition

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28 Nov 2023

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Baroness Young of Hornsey introduced to the House of Lords a proposal for the UK’s first law requiring companies to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence.

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20 Sep 2023

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This briefing sets out key opportunities for the UK to fulfil its existing obligations under international human rights law, as repeatedly urged by human rights treaty bodies, to recognise, protect and promote the collective and individual human rights of indigenous peoples.

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7 Jul 2023

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50 businesses and investors have signed an updated statement calling on the UK government to commit to human rights due diligence legislation.

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22 Nov 2022

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Blog from Peace Brigades International UK. With companies, investors, consumers, and campaigners unequivocally united in their support for a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act, it is high time the UK Government got on board.

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30 Sep 2022

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63 UK business, investors and civil society organisations have written to UK Prime Minister Liz Truss calling for a new UK 'mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law' with access to justice for victims.

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31 Aug 2022

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39 investors with a total of £4.5 trillion of assets under management or advice call on the UK government to introduce a human rights due diligence law

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31 Aug 2022

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New public polling and a letter from UK investors to the UK government have added momentum to the campaign for a human rights due diligence law in the UK.

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31 Aug 2022

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Major UK investors have called on the UK government to introduce human rights and environmental due diligence legislation.

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30 Aug 2022

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New polling of the UK public from the Corporate Justice Coalition and Anti-Slavery International shows significant support for legislation to prevent corporate exploitation.

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1 Jul 2022

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Opinion piece from the UK's Corporate Justice Coalition calling on action from the G7 to hold corporations accountable when they abuse rights.

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23 Feb 2022

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A statement signed by 31 UK civil society organisations including Oxfam, the TUC and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, that calls for a UK 'Business, Human Rights and Environment Act' to protect the rights of people and communities from corporate abuse.

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26 Jan 2022

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Report from Anti-Slavery International making the case for a human rights and environmental due diligence law in the UK

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15 Dec 2021

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Call to hold corporations accountable for the hidden damaging impacts of their supply chain practices, proposing HRDD legislation in the UK as the appropriate solution

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19 Oct 2021

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More than 35 UK civil society organisations are calling for a new UK law mandating companies to carry out human rights and environmental due diligence, and have released the principle elements that such a law should contain

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13 Oct 2021

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13 Oct 2021

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4 Jul 2021

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29 civil society organisations, including BHRRC, call for a new UK law requiring companies to undertake human rights due diligence

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1 Jul 2021

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Statement from 29 UK civil society organisations calling for the UK to demonstrate leadership on business and human rights, and noting the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

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4 May 2021

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29 Apr 2021

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Online fashion retailer Asos is calling for the implementation of mandatory human rights due diligence legislation in the UK to strengthen the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, as part of the publication of its fifth Modern Slavery Statement.

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12 Mar 2021

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12 March 2021 The now all too familiar, shocking allegations of forced labour at Boohoo factories in Leicester are once again grabbing headlines. Last week Boohoo was hit with a double whammy as US lawmakers are mulling a potential import ban against the company, and UK MPs are asking for a long-term bonus scheme to be linked to supply chain improvements. It’s abundantly clear that despite repeated scandals and inquiries — and share prices fluctuating in line with each new development — the problems of Boohoo and other companies tackling abuses in supply chains, whether in the UK, China or anywhere else, remain far from solved. ...as we recover from Covid-19, the government must act not just to ensure that supply chains are resilient but also that they are governed by frameworks protecting human rights and our environmental, so that resilient business is responsible business.

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26 Oct 2020

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This parliamentary briefing argues that we urgently need a new law to hold companies to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms. This law should mandate companies to undertake human rights and environmental due diligence’ across their supply chains.

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22 Sep 2020

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Tom Wills from Tradecraft Exchange discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the UK's proposed Environment Bill and argues that it should go beyond deforestation to also include human rights due diligence

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11 Feb 2020

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10 Apr 2019

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19 Jun 2017

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5 Apr 2017

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