Trade groups back call for human rights legislation

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), the British Retail Consortium, the Corporate Justice Coalition and the Trades Union Congress have welcomed a recommendation from the UK’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) to introduce mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD) legislation.

The group of organisations, with members representing over 350 UK high street brands, trade unions representing 230 million workers around the world, and over 100 civil society organisations globally, said it supported the JCHR’s call to establish legal duties on UK companies to identify and prevent human rights and environmental harms in their operations and global supply chains.