Seven NGOs, including SOMO, have released a new report that focuses on the significant threats to precautionary environmental, labour, consumer and public health policy from regulatory cooperation and “good regulatory practices” chapters within the EU-Canada…
Over 50 NGOs signed a letter to the World Bank sharing their concern over a new Climate-Smart Mining Facility, in which the World Bank partners closely with mining companies. The NGOs fear that the agenda…
Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie), together with 17.000 Dutch citizens as co-plaintiffs, is taking Shell to court for breaching its legal duty of care by causing climate damage across the globe and undermining the…
Over 300 organisations from more than 90 countries signed a letter to the World Trade Organisation to express their ‘profound and urgent opposition to these proposed negotiations which, if concluded, could result in the full…
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…
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…
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