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The EU finally reached an agreement on an EU directive against unfair commercial practices (UTPs) in the food chain. SOMO has been advocating this for more than 10 years and sees it as a great…
Many countries with so-called emerging market economies have recently experienced the pros and cons of the free movement of capital. After the 2008 global financial crisis, these countries saw a huge inflow of capital. While…
In this joint letter, a coalition of European civil society organisations (including SOMO) requested a meeting with vice-president Frans Timmermans to discuss the need for a UN binding treaty to ensure that companies involved in…
In this joint open letter one hundred civil society organisations, among which SOMO, ask Michelle Bachelet (the new High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations) to publish an online, dynamic, and regularly updated…
This week, 60 people, primarily from civil society, from all over the world met in Geneva at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights to discuss the analytical framework of the new project ‘Mind…
Today, SOMOs partner PREMICONGO published a report on the irresponsible business conduct of China Non-ferrous Metal Mining Corporation Huachin operating in Mabende, close to village “45”, in the province of Haut Katanga in the Democratic…
A new publication by SOMO and Oxfam Novib (supported by the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law) addresses the knowledge gap regarding how Dutch Private Sector Development (PSD) policies and instruments take into account…
A report launched this week calls on the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, to do more to fight the threat of climate change. The report “Coming out of…
This year the legal minimum wage in Myanmar was raised. In this article the actual effects and feared negative impacts of the new minimum wage are described. SOMO is calling on garment factories in Myanmar,…
Today more than 300 civil society groups and trade unions – including global organizations such as Public Services International, Friends of the Earth International, ActionAid and SOMO– urged governments participating in United Nations meetings in…
During the week of 15-19 October 2018, more than 94 States and 400 civil society organizations including SOMO were present for negotiations of the first-ever draft of a binding treaty which aims to regulate (in international…
Finally the negotiations for a UN #bindingtreaty on business and human rights start today. SOMO and many members of… https://t.co/i3kpEh9WLJ
“Human rights defenders are not included in the Zero Draft” of the #BindingTreaty on business & human rights, says… https://t.co/WMJ82i5TDq
Civil society’s proposal for the Conclusions and Recommendations of the Report of the 4th session of the OEIGWG… https://t.co/9pu1g4dIJA
