Mind the Gap – Five strategies corporations use to avoid responsibility for human rights abuses
When the Netherlands concludes tax treaties with developing countries, the treaties contain lower rates than promised on the basis of Dutch policy. As a result, developing countries are missing out on badly needed revenues, and…
The Complaints and Disputes Committee of the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textiles has informed SOMO, Action Labor Rights and the Clean Clothes Campaign that it will take up the complaint they submitted last…
The nine largest insurance groups in the Netherlands (Achmea, Aegon, Allianz, ASR, CZ, Menzis, NN Group, VGZ and Vivat) do not do enough to prevent or tackle serious human rights violations in the cobalt sector….
A group of 218 current and former Kenyan tea workers have filed a formal complaint against Unilever today for its failure to respect international human rights standards following widespread violence at the multinational’s largest tea…
On 13 May, SOMO and seven other organisations that put questions to Rio Tinto at its London AGM on 8 April wrote an open letter to Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Office, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, because the…
SOMO and its partner organisation Al-Haq have submitted a report to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, suggesting to include German multinational HeidelbergCement in the yearly update of the UN Database of companies…
SOMO’s mission is to research, reveal and redress the power of multinationals; however, the corona pandemic has dramatically changed the context of our work and we have had to reconsider our activities. The pandemic shows…