The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) is a critical, independent, not-for-profit knowledge centre on multinationals.
Over 100 organisations urge the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to fully implement the mandate provided in HRC resolution 31/36. They call for the release and transmission of the data, including the names of…
The Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights, Al-Marsad, in coalition with 15 other organisations, including human rights groups, an academic institution, and a trade union, has submitted an emergency appeal to various United Nations…
The Double Tax Agreement (DTA) between Indonesia and the Netherlands is often used by multinationals in tax avoidance planning, resulting in tax losses for the Indonesian government. More than 75% of the foreign direct investment…
‘ELDORADO — The Struggle For Skouries‘ is a prize-winning documentary about the civic struggle against destructive resource extractionism at Europe’s largest mining project located in Halkidiki, Northern Greece. Chronicling the resistance against high-risk gold mining…
Oxfam Novib and SOMO together provide their input on the draft law on unfair commercial practices for the agricultural and food supply chain. In addition to an apparently malfunctioning law to prevent late payments, the…
Recently, SOMO and Wemos published their research into the extent of Dutch public funding for drug development, through donations, loans and/or investments. The publication, Overpriced, reveals that because no conditions are set on these investments,…
To tackle labour exploitation in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, six organisations worked together to raise awareness and build capacity among trade unions and labour organisations, anti-trafficking NGOs and migrant rights NGOs to promote identification and…
Based on a ‘freedom of information’ request and research by SOMO, Platform Authentieke Journalistiek (Platform Authentic Journalism) published an article, for Follow The Money, about a lobby for Dutch multinationals called ABDUP. This lobby represents…