Rigorous terms needed for the accession of Brazil to the OECD
This week, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced that it would open accession discussions with six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, and Romania. OECD Watch, a global network of over 130…
Mind the Gap submission on corporate capture to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
In this submission, the Mind the Gap consortium focuses on the widespread tolerance of corporate lobbying. To provide a background context in which this submission has been prepared, first our framework outlining strategies that corporations…
How a mining company avoids being held accountable for human rights violations in DR Congo
For over 15 years, a Chinese-owned mining company has been subjecting Congolese communities to serious human rights abuses and environmental destruction. A new report by PremiCongo, Afrewatch and ACIDH sheds light on how Ruashi Mining…
Strategies used by Ruashi Mining to avoid responsibility for human rights violations
Mind the Gap consortium condemns Israel’s designation of Al-Haq and other human rights groups as “terrorist organisations”
On the 19th of October, 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 Mind…
Transparency needed regarding annual update UN database
While the world is facing the devastating impacts of the Corona pandemic, Israel has escalated its illegal demolition of Palestinian homes and properties, hitting a four-year high. With this statement therefore, SOMO together with 41…