🇺🇸 Impending reforms to the US NCP! US Department of State's National Action Plan will strengthen access to remedy via a new NCP stakeholder advisory body, changes to the NCP’s confidentiality policy & rules of procedure, and implementing a reprisals policy

🚨New report out from OECD Watch members RAID & AFREWATCH on the devasting impacts of cobalt mining in the #DRC and the need for a #JustTransition 👇

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📢Read our joint statement with Business at OECD (BIAC) & TUAC urging strengthened NCPs.
Key points:
🔸Resources, expertise & senior leadership for NCPs
🔸Meaningful relations NCP-Civil Society
🔸OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives highlights importance of GLs & urges govs to improve NCPs
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🗞️ #CSDDD NEWS

Today's endorsement of the CSDDD brings us 0.05% closer to corporate justice.

While it’s an important step, the last-minute changes due to political manoeuvres force the endorsement to cover even fewer EU companies.

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New grant alert!📣

Do you want to challenge the monopoly power of the world’s largest corporations with your research?🔍

Have a look at the Competition Policy and Power Research Fund's inaugural call for proposals → somo.nu/49UKyN4

🗓Application deadline: 30th April

❌Governments should NOT give contracts to companies that do NOT

✔️engage in #collectivebargaining
✔️observe OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives guidelines for multinational enterprises on responsible business conduct

veronica nilsson tells #OECD Policy Makers Roundtable on optimising #RBC due diligence

Interested in corporate accountability? Apply for an internship and join our team! Deadline is 31 March
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New NCP complaint filed against Standard Chartered Bank for financing Filipino coal power plants🏭
Read more: oecdwatch.org/complaint/the-…

OECD Watch joins more than 130 civil society organisations: Today's failure of the EU Council to endorse the #CSDDD marks a deplorable setback for corporate accountability and the protection of human rights and the environment worldwide

🗞️ #CSDDD NEWS

Today, despite overwhelming support, EU capitals have set a deplorable setback by saying NO to the CSDDD.

It’s a harrowing green-light signal to reckless businesses that they can keep fueling crises for corporate profits twitter.com/EU2024BE/statu…

🚨 Shell is selling out the Niger Delta!

Our new report shows how historical pollution remains a serious issue and how Shell is evading responsibility for its toxic mess by selling its problem oil assets.

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The landslide at the Çöpler-Iliç mine on 14 February 2024 threatens natural resources in the region, including the Euphrates River and a large geographical area.

🐺Join our webinar tomorrow at 9.00 (CET) with FOUR PAWS International on #AnimalWelfare and the OECD Guidelines. #OECDGarmentForum

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📣Live at #OECDGarmentForum | Paul Roeland of Clean Clothes Campaign calls out retailers' reliance on certifications and social audit firms for #duediligence and calls on them to ensure all brands have a fair, functioning and effective #remedy mechanism for when things inevitably go wrong

📣Live from the #OECDGarmentForum | BCWS's Kalpona Akter highlights the importance of ensuring the voice of workers in the garment supply chain are heard when discussing the climate adaption measures companies and governments must take

#duediligence #bizhumanrights