Tax avoidance or state aid? How the Dutch tax authority gave Shell’s foreign shareholders a gift of more than 7 billion euros.
Today civil society groups from the EU member states have gathered at the UN in Geneva to support the Intergovernmental Working Group tasked with developing a binding instrument to ensure that businesses respect human rights….
The fourth session of the so-called ‘open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights’ will take place from 15 – 19 October at the United Nations (UN)…
In April of this year, SOMO co-organized a workshop in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) to share experiences and learning on addressing adverse impacts of business activities on communities and workers in Eastern and Southern Africa….
We are facing urgent challenges: social, environmental, political. It all starts with freeing society from the grip of finance and democracy from the capture of finance’s private interests. Ten years on from the financial crisis,…
A feature documentary about environmental destruction and human rights abuses at Europe’s largest mining project. ‘ELDORADO — The Struggle For Skouries‘ is a documentary film about the civic struggle against destructive resource extractionism at Europe’s…
On 15 September 2018 it has been 10 years since the fall of the US bank Lehman Brothers. It was the start of the financial crisis and it cost governments billions trying to save the…
July 2018 saw the presentation of a draft version of a national ‘Climate Agreement’ – which envisions the Dutch public and private sector’s commitment to the ‘Paris Climate Agreement’. SOMO, Action Aid and Both Ends…
