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Civil society organizations, including SOMO, have sent a communique to Léo Heller, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Drinking Water and Sanitation. In it they warn that their rights are at serious risk…
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…
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a historic decision in Jam et al. v. International Finance Corporation, ruling that the World Bank Group does not enjoy absolute immunity from suit in the United…
SOMO endorses the letter of Palestinian civil society organisations that urge the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to publicly release the UN Database of businesses engaged in activities in illegal Israeli settlements, during…
The World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has declined to accept an Amicus Curiae that was to be presented by the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Páramo de…
Letter to the Dutch ambassador in Bangladesh to share our deep concern about the further deterioration of political space for workers to exercise their fundamental rights in Bangladesh, and the ongoing serious and systematic labour…
An international group of civil society organizations, including SOMO, submitted today a request for the exclusion of the Brazilian mining company Vale from the United Nations Global Compact, the largest network for corporate social responsibility…
Shell used the investment agreement between the Netherlands and Nigeria to obtain a lucrative oil field at remarkably good conditions. This follows from internal e-mails from the oil company. Friends of the Earth Netherlands and…
The ‘Mind the Gap’ project, coordinated by SOMO, is a four-year project. With this project we want to increase respect for human rights and effective access to justice and remedy for individuals and communities whose lives…
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,…
Civil society organisations drafted a letter calling upon the Bangladesh government to allow the Bangladesh Accord to fully and independently continue operations in the country for the duration of the private contract, which remains binding…
SOMO has countersigned this letter to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the context of the appeal in the case of AAA & Others versus Unilever Plc and Unilever Tea Kenya Limited A2/…
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…
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…
