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…
Gaps must be addressed via revision of the OECD Guidelines’ Procedural Guidance OECD Watch has completed its second evaluation of NCPs according to a set of 40 key performance indicators (KPIs) assessing elements of NCPs’…
‘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…
OECD Watch’s “substantiated submission” calls on OECD to condemn undue pressure by corporations on governments and correct Canadian NCP’s non-transparent, unpredictable, and inequitable handling of complaint by civil society In the second filing of…
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…