Seven NGOs, including SOMO, have released a new report that focuses on the significant threats to precautionary environmental, labour, consumer and public health policy from regulatory cooperation and “good regulatory practices” chapters within the EU-Canada…
Over 300 organisations from more than 90 countries signed a letter to the World Trade Organisation to express their ‘profound and urgent opposition to these proposed negotiations which, if concluded, could result in the full…
Between 1 and 5 April 2019, delegations from across the world will meet at the United Nations to discuss the reform of the current system of investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) at the international level. Those…
In Bend or Break, SOMO and Friends of the Earth Netherlands reveal how Shell used a bilateral investment treaty between the Netherlands and Nigeria to secure the rights over a lucrative oil field. Publication /…
Om 29 January, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice presented a preliminary opinion on the compatibility of the ICS arbitration mechanism – a derivative of the highly controversial ISDS – in CETA,…
A Dutch coalition that includes SOMO as well as other civil society organisations and trade unions launched a new campaign on January 22nd. The No VIP rights for multinationals: human rights and environment first! campaign is…
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