Many thanks to Lord Speaker for our conversation, giving me an opportunity to talk about the PMB I’m sponsoring that will receive its 2nd Reading 10 May. Corporate Justice Coalition Anti-Slavery International Better Business Act lucy siegle Vix B 💙👩‍🔬🔬🧪🧫⚗️ Rights Lab Dr Todd Landman K Biswas Labour Behind The Label The Anti-Slavery Collective

Important investigation from Rob Hastings re where your trendy athlesiure wear comes from inews.co.uk/news/world/und…

Bill to introduce Commercial&Public Authorities Duty to Prevent Human Rights and Environmental Harms in their value chains, awaiting date of 2nd Reading, bills.parliament.uk/publications/5… Corporate Justice Coalition Anti-Slavery International AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children Centre for Sustainable Fashion Labour Behind The Label lucy siegle Rob Hastings Rights Lab

Our new KnowTheChain Apparel & Footwear Benchmark results are live!

How are fashion companies addressing #ForcedLabour risks in their supply chains? Progress on transparency & commitments are overshadowed by poor scores on remedy & purchasing practices. knowthechain.org/benchmark/?utm…

'The rush for transition minerals...is leading to an increase in child labour'

Respect for human rights must be urgently embedded in transition mineral mining, Damilola S. Olawuyi, SAN, FCIArb noted in our recent webinar with @WGbizHRDs.

Full webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=E1gR-_… #JustTransition

One year into 🇩🇪 Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, civil society notes positive steps & room for improvement.

Companies are intensifying human rights risk management & the complaints mechanism is in use, say Initiative Lieferkettengesetz Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung & CorA-Netzwerk:
business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news…

Deal on corporate sustainability due diligence!

Companies will soon have to take measures to identify and mitigate any adverse impact on human rights and the environment, with respect to:
📌their own operations
📌those of their subsidiaries
📌those carried out by their partners

‘Yes we want to deliver a return for shareholders but if that’s not also delivering impact, we’re not interested.’

Tony's Chocolonely UK & IRE CEO & Better Business Act co-chair, Douglas Lamont, discussed the chocolatier’s mission-lock approach at the launch of Demos & B Corp UK's latest report.

I hope Middlesex Uni will support the Private Members’ Bill of your alumna! bills.parliament.uk/publications/5…. Studying for my degrees there had an enormously positive impact on my career. Human Rights and Environmental Justice are indivisible. That must be the driving force for COP28

Thanks to all CJC for their work in supporting initiatives such as bills.parliament.uk/publications/5… listening to colleagues from Columbia whose lives have been destroyed by extractive industries demands action now

New Bill bills.parliament.uk/publications/5… means companies & public bodies would beeld to account on environmental & human rights harms in their value chains Better Business Act Corporate Justice Coalition Business & Human Rights Rights Lab UK BME Anti-Slavery Network (BASNET) Anti-Slavery International West Midlands Anti Slavery Network Fashion Revolution Fashion Declares lucy siegle

Very much looking forward to progressing this PMB, so watch this space! Centre for Sustainable Fashion Labour Behind The Label Rights Lab Good Business Matters Business & Human Rights Better Business Act APPG Ethics&Sustainability in Fashion&Hairdressing Fashion Declares Fashion Revolution Clean Clothes Campaign UN Global Compact Network UK HumanRightsWATCH UK BME Anti-Slavery Network (BASNET) Anti-Slavery International ETI

Today Unseen launches the ‘Who Cares’ report showing the alarming rise of #modernslavery and exploitation in the Care Sector. Much for Home Office, Care Quality Commission and Local Government Association (LGA) to consider and then take action. unseenuk.org/wp-content/upl…

Woman handcuffed by Metropolitan Police in front of her child even though it turned out she had paid her £3 bus fare. Institutional racism? Met statement below original makes it worse.

Working with Anti-Slavery International on this. Aim to get in Party manifestos, and/or Private Members’ Bill. Let’s do this! Centre for Sustainable Fashion @ lucy siegle Labour Behind The Label Rights Lab Business & Human Rights APPG Ethics&Sustainability in Fashion&Hairdressing Common Objective The Anti-Slavery Collective Better Business Act ETI Corporate Justice Coalition

.The Labour Party Socialist Campaign Group MPs Rebecca Long-Bailey, Richard Burgon MP and Zarah Sultana MP sign our pledge.

They support a new law on business, human rights and the environment to protect people and planet from abuse 👇

#BizHumanRights

goodbusinessmatters.org/decision-makers

TORY LOBBYING: Save Our NHS

🔴STEVEN BRINE Tory MP lobbied NHS to hire staff through a recruitment firm which paid him £1,600 a month.

👉RETWEET if you agree this is wrong.

Policy of The Green Party - end tuition fees.

Education is a public good. It should be paid for from general progressive taxation.

The political spectrum is clear - Greens are the anti-Tories
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

🚨New blog 🚨
We celebrate a win in our #BusinessHumanRights work as the EU moves one step closer to putting people and the planet before profit ⬇️
antislavery.org/one-step-close…

The Titanic sub billionaire rescue mission is entering final hours of hope to find survivors.

Meanwhile in Italy & Greece, search & rescue to save people at sea is criminalised.
Pia Klemp is among those facing jail for rescuing migrants #r4today #FreePia morningstaronline.co.uk/node/71822