Updates & Resources
UK Government opens consultation on “world-leading” due diligence law
The UK's new Environment Act 2021 (the "Environment Act") introduces a prohibition on the use of "forest risk commodities" in UK commercial activities, unless those commodities have been produced in compliance with local laws. It also introduces due diligence and reporting obligations in relation to "forest risk commodities".
Rights groups join forces to call for UK corporate accountability laws
Almost 30 organisations have joined forces to call for the UK to follow in the footsteps of its European partners by introducing corporate accountability laws requiring companies to undertake human rights and environmental due diligence across their supply chains.
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.
Due Diligence and Transparency Legislation
This brief sets out the key requirements for strong and effective human rights due diligence legislation and practices to address the business drivers of forced labour along the supply chain.
We need a new law to root out corporate supply chain abuses — wherever they take place
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.
Civil Society Paper: Debating mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation - a reality check
The paper takes some of the myths surrounding the introduction of human rights and environmental due diligence legislation and fact checks it against reality.
Global Resource Initiative recommends the introduction of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
The Global Resource Initiative is a government-convened task force which looked at measures to tackle deforestation and land conversation for global supply chains to have a positive impact on people and planet. It recommended the introduction of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence for agricultural and forestry commodities with scope to extend it in the future. It was recommended that the financial sector should be covered by a similiar obligation.
Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability
Report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the UK’s commitment to human rights.