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Cividep strives for living wages for workers to live in dignity
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On the day before Nokia’s shareholder meeting in Helsinki, Finland, the GoodElectronics Network is publishing a company profile narrating nearly two decades of the rise, fall, and resurrection of this Finnish electronics company. The profile…
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Grievance mechanisms fail to give workers access to remedy
In a research into grievance mechanisms (GM) in the electronics industry in five different countries SOMO found that very few workers have trust in the grievance mechanisms in their company. Publication / March 1, 2014…
Using Grievance Mechanisms
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CSO guide to UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights now available in Russian
The guide “How to use the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in company research and advocacy” has been translated into Russian. This publication is a joint initiative of SOMO, CEDHA and Cividep…
Strategic guide for civil society organisations now available in Spanish
The 2012 UN Guiding Principles (UNGP) guide is now also available in Spanish. The guide ‘How to use the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in company research and advocacy’ supports CSOs in…