The UK parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has just published its Human Rights and Business 2017 report calling for “stronger legislation, stronger enforcement and clearer routes to justice” to protect workers’ human rights.

Building awareness of labour standards risks in supply chains serving the health sector.

Two new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guides that help UK companies understand their corporate responsibility to respect human rights and to manage human rights complaints effectively.

France to follow the UK’s lead on modern slavery legislation with a new law, Devoir de vigilance des entreprises donneuses d'ordre.

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This statement has been revised following the release of the trade unionists arrested following worker unrest in Dhaka’s Ashulia industrial area in December 2016 and the more recent arrests in Chittagong.