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Respecting rights or ticking boxes?
Legislating human rights due diligence
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State of play and roadmap concepts: electronics sector
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Complaint procedure against C&A fails to make progress
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Good policy paper
Guiding practice from the policies of Independent Accountability Mechanisms
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Delivery companies need more ambitious goals to help curb global warming
Despite the fact that the fastly growing e-commerce sector has a big and increasing impact on global warming, six leading delivery companies to date have failed to formulate goals that are sufficiently ambitious. In “Parcel…
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Parcel delivery on a warming planet
The efforts and ambitions of six companies
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Force companies to end forced labour
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Clothing brands allegedly complicit in forced labour in Xinjiang
Human rights organisation ECCHR and Dutch law firm Prakken d’Oliveira have petitioned the Dutch Public Prosecutor to launch a criminal investigation into garment companies for complicity in the exploitation and enslavement of Uighurs in the…
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Re-cap: 2021 negotiations over binding treaty on business and human rights
From 25 until 29 October, states convened at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to negotiate on the third revised draft treaty on business and human rights. Compared to the previous draft, this text…
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On the legitimacy of the Inclusive Framework from a Global South perspective
Report on the BEPS Inclusive Framework of the OECD
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SOMO and Both ENDS condemn violence against Indigenous community near the Barro Blanco dam in Panama
Members of the Indigenous Ngäbe Buglé people were brutally attacked by Panamanian police on Friday 29 October 2021 on a parcel of private land near the FMO-financed Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam. The victims, all members…
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EU: Don’t limit Indonesian access to medicine
In this letter, SOMO – together with a group of NGOs – urge the European Commission to drop provisions that protect intellectual property in the economic agreement (CEPA) between Indonesia-EU. They fear that the so…
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SOMO report on Moderna incites change
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SOMO’s recommendation for HERA – the new European centre for cross-border health threats
SOMO, together with a broad coalition, have sent a letter to health attachés and to the Health Commissioner of the European Union urging them to reconsider crucial aspects of the recently launched Health Emergency Preparedness…
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“ESG” investing: a climate friendly choice?
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Why is the EU still absent in UN negotiations on binding human rights rules for business?
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Declaration on mining and the energy transition ahead of COP26
SOMO and 140 other organisations support a just and rapid transition away from fossil fuels and towards a renewable energy system. However, we are concerned about the impacts of extracting minerals, such as lithium, cobalt,…
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SOMO condemns Israel’s designation of Al-Haq and other human rights groups as “terrorist organisations”
Last week, the Israeli Defense Ministry declared six Palestinian civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) to be “terrorist organisations”. One of the organisations affected by the decision is SOMO’s long-standing partner Al-Haq,…