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This week, the online training of the Indonesion NGO Prakarsa started. The training is an introduction to (international) taxation, with a focus on the digital economy. Central to the training are the concepts of tax…
Today, on the World Day for Decent work we proudly announce our programme to improve working conditions in the leather supply chain. As a group of seven NGOs from Austria, Bangladesh, Germany, India, the Netherlands…
On 4 September 2020, the European Commission (EC) released a new communication detailing the future of its policies on mining raw materials critical for renewable energy, digital and industrial transitions in Europe. The EC’s public relations…
On 27 August 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs responded in a letter to the Parliament to the SOMO report ‘Overpriced: drugs developed with Dutch Public Funding‘. On our Dutch website you find a…
New research by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) shows that the German coronavirus test producer Qiagen has been able to dodge millions of euros in tax since 2010 thanks to tax avoidance…
Following a critical research report on the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textiles (CKT) published in June, Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sigrid Kaag showed a worrying lack of urgency when…
When the Netherlands concludes tax treaties with developing countries, the treaties contain lower rates than promised on the basis of Dutch policy. As a result, developing countries are missing out on badly needed revenues, and…
The Complaints and Disputes Committee of the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textiles has informed SOMO, Action Labor Rights and the Clean Clothes Campaign that it will take up the complaint they submitted last…
The nine largest insurance groups in the Netherlands (Achmea, Aegon, Allianz, ASR, CZ, Menzis, NN Group, VGZ and Vivat) do not do enough to prevent or tackle serious human rights violations in the cobalt sector….
A group of 218 current and former Kenyan tea workers have filed a formal complaint against Unilever today for its failure to respect international human rights standards following widespread violence at the multinational’s largest tea…
On 13 May, SOMO and seven other organisations that put questions to Rio Tinto at its London AGM on 8 April wrote an open letter to Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Office, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, because the…
There is still plenty of room for improving the standards in the Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textiles, concludes the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a report published on 15 July 2020….
SOMO and its partner organisation Al-Haq have submitted a report to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, suggesting to include German multinational HeidelbergCement in the yearly update of the UN Database of companies…
