Updates & Resources
Over 150 businesses and investors call on the UK government to introduce a new law
The statement calls for a new law that ensures accountability when businesses cause or contribute to harms. It calls for the law to hold businesses legally liable for harm, loss and damage arising from their failure to prevent adverse human rights and environmental impacts within their operations and throughout their global value chains and to require them to adequately compensate victims of abuse.
50 businesses sign statement calling for human rights due diligence legislation
50 businesses, including the British Retail Consortium, Tesco and Unilever, call on the UK government to urgently bring forward ambitious primary legislation to mandate companies to carry out human rights and environmental due diligence.
Investors support a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act
Investors representing £4.5 trillion in assets under management support a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act and make recommendations to the UK for robust legislation on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
Retailers press for human rights and environmental checks on supply chains
Tesco, John Lewis and others say it would prevent scandals such as poor conditions at Boohoo suppliers.
The UK must take the global lead against modern slavery once more
Nick Beighton, chief executive of Asos, comments on the need to strengthen the Modern Slavery Act. The UK must go further and introduce new laws to compel businesses to take meaningful actions to prevent modern slavery. The UK must adopt mandatory human rights due diligence legislation.