Right Corporate Wrongs
Our campaign brings new laws for trade justice
In response to campaigning from the Trade Justice Movement and our allies, public pressure has resulted in new accountability laws for companies. The Companies Bill has concluded its passage through Parliament and has been give royal assent (as the Companies Act 2006). The Trade Justice Movement has welcomed the Companies Act as a step forward towards greater corporate responsibility, but warns the new legislation has not gone far enough to ensure that British business will work for people and planet as well as profit.
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New Trade Deals, New Danger
The campaign on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Together with other European countries, the UK is part of a push to have some of the poorest nations on the planet sign up to grossly unfair trade deals. The deals are called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). The Trade Justice Movement is gearing up its campaigning on EPAs and calling on the UK Government to use its full influence to stop unfair deals going ahead, to listen to the serious concerns of poor countries and work with those countries to develop new deals that will help deliver trade justice. Get involved by taking action. and find out more. Be part of the growing campaign across Europe and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries affected by these trade deals.
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