holding Corporations accountable
Our Current Initiatives Include
Business as usual is not working.
Advancing corporate accountability requires both addressing the roots of corporate abuses and ensuring that businesses are held responsible for harm they cause.
Corporations respond to the incentives and disincentives provided to them. When businesses are incentivized to maximize profit with minimal constraints, this often results in exploitation and the concentration of corporate power. But altering those incentive structures has the potential to alter corporate behavior to prevent harm and protect what matters most.
This means that to build a future that protects people and our planet, we need commonsense laws that prevent goods made using exploitative practices from entering the market and ensures companies take action to prevent abuses, actively engage with communities, and take responsibility and repair damage when they cause harm.
Updates & Analysis
(June 8, 2026 | Washington, DC) On June 2nd, the US government announced the completion of the Section 301 investigation, imposing a 10% tariff on economies that have imposed full or partial forced labor import bans or have committed to doing so, and a 12.5% tariff on all others.
Although ICAR welcomes the U.S. government leveraging its trade authority to pressure states into taking more concrete action to combat forced labor, a blanket tariff applied across all investigated economies is not the correct approach.
On October 30th, ICAR, Humanity United Action, and the Human Trafficking Legal Center (HTLC) submitted a comment to the U.S. Trade Representative in response to the request for comments on significant foreign trade barriers for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report.
This brief argues that as the FAR Council aims to bring the Federal Acquisition Regulation more in line with the administration’s priorities it must ensure that provisions like the human trafficking and forced child labor prohibitions remain in the FAR in order to protect law-abiding U.S. businesses from unfair competition, secure U.S. supply chains, and ensure U.S. taxpayer dollars are not funding egregious abuses around the world.
New ICAR & CSIS Report Highlights How the U.S. Can Improve Government Coordination for a More Rights-Based Approach to Supply Chain Transparency.
On Thursday, November 14, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced an Action Plan for enhancing the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP). The Action Plan provides a comprehensive set of goals and actions, including actions that would incorporate labor rights considerations into SIMP.
ICAR publishes policy brief with detailed argument for why the United States needs to adopt an FCPA for Human Rights.
Ahead of the European Union vote on whether to adopt the Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), ICAR, joined by 69 other partner organizations around the world, sent letters urging European countries to vote in favor of a strong due diligence directive.
In an era where corporations seamlessly navigate across borders, a new beacon of change emerges – BHR-Law.org, the brainchild of ICAR, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice, CORE Coalition, Above Ground, and Public Eye, has officially landed.
Our joint letter provides concrete recommendations on addressing illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and forced labor in seafood supply chains and lays out why these efforts are needed to reduce the risks to fisheries as well as the workers and local communities that depend on them.
Today, ICAR and several partners sent a letter to the members of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC), which is a committee made up of executives from 20 companies that advises U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on ways to streamline trade regulations.
ICAR and HUA comment to express support for the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) proposal to amend the definition of illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing to include fishing activities beyond national jurisdiction that involve the use of forced labor.
On May 24, 2022, Swiss-based commodities firm Glencore pleaded guilty to bribery, corruption, and market manipulation, paying $1.1 billion in fines and forfeitures to the U.S. government to settle the charges.
ICAR Applauds the Biden Administration’s Statement on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Forced Labor While Encouraging Broader Data Collection and Analysis