In 2015 and 2019 tailings dams, holding mining waste material, collapsed, sending toxic mud into rivers and ecosystems in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Brazil is seeking membership in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),…
In a recently published decision, the OECD Investment Committee faults the Canadian government for its handling of a complaint brought by Swiss NGO Bruno Manser Fonds before Canada’s National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines…
Cases filed with National Contact Points for the OECD Guidelines left complainants largely empty-handed in 2021, OECD Watch concludes in its yearly state of remedy analysis. The report underscores the need for mandatory due diligence…
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the accession roadmap for Brazil and five other countries today, establishing a blueprint for strong requirements to protect the environment, human rights defenders, and Indigenous peoples….
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…
‘What a difference a day makes’, or, in this case, a couple of years and a strategic intervention by civil society. Less than a decade ago, the confidence of civil society organisations (‘CSOs’) in the…
A new UN advice clarifies the application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to key financial instrument of relevance to OECD Guidelines case involving UBS and Hikvision. In a letter to…
On the 20th of April 2021, the Dutch NCP accepted a complaint filed by Peruvian Indigenous groups against oil multinational Pluspetrol. It is the first time a complaint against a “letterbox” company has been declared…