Today SOMO Services launched it’s first newsletter. By sharing examples of our most recent work in this newsletter, we hope to show you how we can help with your future campaigns, advocacy, dialogue or cooperation with the corporate sector.
SOMO Services plans to send out a newsletter twice a year to keep you up to date. Want to find out more?
This morning, the Israeli military raided the office of our partner Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization, in Rammallah West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory , and five other Palestinian civil society organisations. After forcibly raiding…
On July 6th, long standing SOMO partner Cecilia Viscayno Tuico passed away and was laid to rest in her hometown in Laguna, Philippines. The terrible news of Cecil’s passing came as a shock to all…
This week, the Dutch Senate approved CETA, the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, with a very small majority (40 for; 35 against). This means that the Dutch parliament has ratified the trade…
The Mind the Gap project has launched a new toolkit for civil society to deal with strategies commonly used by corporations to avoid responsibility for human rights abuses and environmental damage across their supply chains….
Disappointing outcome of grievance procedure against C&A Workers at Myanmar garment factory don’t profit Reaction of SOMO, CCC, and Myanmar labour rights organisation to the verdict in the complaints procedure concerning C&A This week the…
Today the Complaints and Disputes Committee of the former Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile published its final ruling on the complaint that SOMO, Clean Clothes Campaign Netherlands, and a labour rights organisation in…
Following SOMO’s publication Wood pellet damage (2021), the Dutch State Secretary of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy at the time, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, ordered the Dutch Emissions Authority (NEA) to investigate the report’s findings. The results…
On Tuesday 28 June, the Honduran organisation COPINH and the Global Justice Association filed a complaint with the public prosecutor in the Netherlands against Dutch development bank FMO. For COPINH, this is part of their…
