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2021-07-15 | Article

Nobel Peace Prize winner and NGOs demand Chancellor Merkel release vaccine patents

Press Release

2020-07-22 | Article

False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

2020-02-27 | Article

Joint civil society response to the European Commission study into supply chain due diligence

Statement

2020-02-26 | Article

CSO letter with concerns about UN Food Systems Summit

Letter

2019-03-05 | Article

Measuring the SDGs

Who controls the process, who owns the results? UN Monitor #2

2017-10-10 | Article

Public-Private Partnerships: Defusing the ticking time bomb

2017-10-10 | Article

A 10-Point Roadmap for Europe

On the Role of the Private Sector in Development

2017-06-09 | Article

U.S. Philanthrocapitalism and the Global Health Agenda: The Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, Past and Present

2017-06-09 | Article

Inside Job: Big Polluters' lobbyists on the inside at the UNFCCC

2017-06-09 | Article

ExxonMobil and SaudiAramco to write intergovernmental report on impacts of global warming

2017-05-04 | Article

Ensuring the Primacy of Human Rights in Trade and Investment Policies

Model clauses for a UN Treaty on transnational corporations, other businesses and human rights

2017-05-04 | Article

ExxonMobil and SaudiAramco to write intergovernmental report on impacts of global warming

Civil Society Letter to the IPCC Chair, Dr. Hoesung Lee and the IPCC Bureau

2017-03-06 | Article

Corporate taxation key to protecting human rights in the global economy

2016-12-05 | Article

The Corporate Crime Principles

Advancing investigations and prosecutions in human rights cases

2016-11-28 | Article

New analysis: Big polluters’ have back-door access to UN climate talks

2016-11-28 | Article

180 countries adopt landmark public health decisions on tobacco control

2016-11-28 | Article

EU Action Plan on SDGs overlooks human rights risks of corporate activity

2016-11-24 | Article

The Monsanto Tribunal: A Report-Back

2016-11-24 | Article

Fragile! Handle with Care: Multinationals and Conflict

Lessons from SOMO's Multinational Corporations in Conflict-Affected Areas programme

2016-11-15 | Article

Monsanto Lobbying

An attack on us, our planet, and democracy

2016-10-25 | Article

Corporate accountability: Is the EU ready to listen?

2016-10-20 | Article

Tell World Leaders to Kick Big Polluters out of Climate Policy!

2016-10-17 | Article

Political momentum on water raises red flags

2016-10-13 | Article

For whose benefit?

A different perspective on Tax Inspectors Without Borders

2016-10-05 | Article

Approaching States’ Obligations Under a Prospective Legally Binding Instrument on TNCs and Other Business Enterprises In Regard to Human Rights

2016-09-19 | Article

Democracy For Sale awards

The hidden powers co-writing TTIP

2016-09-13 | Article

Sign Petition: Tell EU to support UN treaty for businesses and human rights!

Stop corporate abuse: we need rights for people and rules for business

2016-07-08 | Article

UN body to elaborate treaty on TNCs/human rights holds first session

2016-06-15 | Article

WHO: Work on non-State actors engagement framework to continue

2016-06-15 | Article

Indigenous Peoples Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent

The Peruvian case

2016-06-15 | Article

Whose representatives? MEPs on the industry payroll

2016-06-03 | Article

The Unholy Alliance

Five Western Donors Shape a Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture

2016-05-18 | Article

UN Treaty Must Address Corporate Capture

2016-05-02 | Article

Leaked TTIP documents confirm major risks for climate, environment and consumer safety

2016-03-10 | Article

Public-Private Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:

Fit for purpose?

2016-03-08 | Article

The zombie ISDS

Rebranded as ICS, rights for corporations to sue states refuse to die

2016-02-18 | Article

Better Regulation

TTIP under the Radar?

2016-01-20 | Article

Gated Development

Is the Gates Foundation always a force for good?

2016-01-20 | Article

Gated Development -is the Gates Foundation always a force for good?

2016-01-18 | Article

Dangerous Regulatory Duet

How transatlantic regulatory cooperation under TTIP will allow bureaucrats and big business to attack the public interest

2016-01-18 | Article

Dangerous Regulatory Duet -

How transatlantic regulatory cooperation under TTIP will allow bureaucrats and big business to attack the public interest

2015-12-17 | Article

Rights for business, not for people: the EU's agenda

2015-12-16 | Article

Open letter from Puvan Selvanathan to President of the UN Human Rights Council

2015-12-10 | Article

WHO: Unease over seconded philanthropic foundation staff to top management

2015-12-08 | Article

WHO: Do financial contributions from ‘pharma’ violate WHO Guidelines?

2015-11-26 | Article

Fueling the Fire: Big polluters bankrolling COP21

Study peels back green façade uncovering hollow PR, disastrous environmental track record and destructive lobbying

2015-11-26 | Article

Treaty on business & human rights is needed to curb adverse impact of international trade agreements

How can Philip Morris sue Uruguay over its tobacco laws?

2015-11-25 | Article

Business and Human Rights:

Commencing discussions on a legally binding instrument

2015-11-25 | Article

The Corporate Cookbook:

How climate criminals have captured COP21

2015-10-23 | Article

NGOs criticise WHO's 'non paper' on conflicts of interest

2015-10-09 | Article

Peoples’ Nutrition Is Not a Business

2015-10-06 | Article

Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Agreements and Economic Development

Myths and Realities

2015-09-11 | Article

A binding international instrument on business & human rights should safeguard civic space

2015-09-01 | Article

Policy prescriptions: the firepower of the EU pharmaceutical lobby and implications for public health

2015-07-24 | Article

The revolving door: greasing the wheels of the TTIP lobby

2015-07-16 | Article

A Low Bar for Business

2015-07-07 | Article

UN Working Group on a treaty on business and human rights opened

Contributions to the legal building blocks of the Treaty regarding the scope, the state duty to protect and direct obligations for corporations

2015-06-03 | Article

G7 food initiative driving hunger in African countries, say global civil society groups

2015-06-02 | Article

Enhance the International Legal Framework to Protect Human Rights from Corporate Abuse

2015-05-22 | Article

Keep a Strong FENSA: Safeguard WHO's Independence From Private Interests

2015-05-21 | Article

CSOs voice concerns over corporate takeover of WHO

Published in SUNS #8025 dated 21 May 2015

2015-05-19 | Article

Open Letter to Members of the European Parliament on the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

2015-04-29 | Article

Business Accountability FOR Development

Mapping business liability mechanisms and donor engagement with private sector in development

2015-04-23 | Article

Lobbying in Europe

Hidden Influence, Privileged Access

2015-03-02 | Article

Unhappy Meal: €1 Billion in Tax Avoidance on the Menu at McDonald’s

Tax structure allowed McDonald’s to divert revenue for years, costing European countries over €1 billion in lost taxes between 2009 and 2013.

2015-02-13 | Article

Fool's Gold

How Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold destroys the Greek environment and dodges tax through Dutch mailbox companies

2015-02-10 | Article

Food Security Governance Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations

2015-01-20 | Article

Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016

2014-12-09 | Article

The new conquistadors making their presence felt at COP20 in Peru

2014-12-09 | Article

Dirty profits

How companies and financial institutions gain billions at the expense of people and the environment and shirk their responsibilities

2014-12-04 | Article

Banking with principles? Benchmarking banks against the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

2014-11-05 | Article

Privatizing security: talking with Lou Pingeot

2014-10-28 | Article

Reforms to World Bank’s flagship Doing Business report are off track and undermine World Bank’s credibility

2014-10-28 | Article

Trade unions and campaigners slam “strongly flawed” Doing Business report, after World Bank snubs call by two independent panels for root and branch reform

2014-10-01 | Article

Warning from Civil Society: TTIP Threatens to Undermine Financial Reform

2014-09-29 | Article

Where is the public in PPPs?

Analyzing the World Bank’s support for public-private partnerships

2014-09-25 | Article

The Great Rip Off

Anonymous company owners and the threat to American interests

2014-09-17 | Article

The State Duty to Protect Against Business-Related Human Rights Abuses

Unpacking Pillar 1 and 3 of the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights and Business

2014-09-01 | Article

Moral Hazard

"Mega" Agricultural public-private partnerships threaten livelihoods for African farmers

2014-09-01 | Article

New Commission must end corporate dominance of EU expert groups

2014-07-24 | Article

The role of the private sector in financing for development from a feminist perspective

2014-07-14 | Article

Human rights are not a gift, but a duty

2014-07-14 | Article

TISA: on the way to unlimited deregulation

2014-07-11 | Article

A Private Affair

Shining a light on the shadowy institutions giving public support to private companies and taking over the development agenda

2014-07-02 | Article

New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa raises concerns

2014-07-02 | Article

CSOs protest as European Commission hires opponent of corporate transparency to assess corporate transparency

2014-06-28 | Article

Debate in Delaware on Tackling Anonymous Companies

2014-06-27 | Article

Resolution on binding human rights standards passes in Human Rights Council

2014-06-20 | Article

EU Investment Policy: Looking behind closed doors

Helping the public understand EU investment negotiations

2014-06-12 | Article

US family farmers criticise TAFTA

2014-06-10 | Article

How the world is paving the way for corporate land grabs

2014-06-05 | Article

It’s time to stop the privatisation of the development agenda

2014-06-02 | Article

UN Women Launches Private Sector Leadership Advisory Council

2014-05-26 | Article

The European Commission's Private Sector Plan in Development Cooperation

2014-05-22 | Article

"Carving up a continent" report by WDM, and company responses

2014-05-21 | Article

Melinda Gates to address the World Health Assembly

Civil Society registers its protest

2014-05-05 | Article

Big Data puts farmers on alert

2014-05-02 | Article

Business among friends

Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform

2014-03-29 | Article

14 Misconceptions about Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations

Brochure created by the ETO Consortium in response to the considerable urgency to strengthen Extraterritorial Obligations by States (ETOs) and implement the primacy of human rights in the middle of diverse and global crises.

2014-03-20 | Article

Profiting from crisis

How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries

2014-02-14 | Article

Moving Beyond The Corporate Vision of Sustainability

2014-02-13 | Article

Why Public-Private Partnerships don’t work

2014-01-29 | Article

State of power 2014

Understand power structures to overturn them

2014-01-22 | Article

Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of China’s Elite

2014-01-16 | Article

EU restricts food speculation and limits high frequency trading (Mifid)

2014-01-07 | Article

FIAN launches international action

TTIP and TPP void

2013-11-27 | Article

Participants of Peoples’ Forum request binding instrument to regulate TNCs including ETOs

2013-11-25 | Article

The COP19 Guide to Corporate Lobbying

Business Capture of COP 19 in Warsaw

2013-11-20 | Article

New brochure and training support human rights defenders to file complaints against multinationals

2013-11-18 | Article

A dangerous blend?

The EU’s agenda to ‘blend’ public development finance with private finance

2013-10-29 | Article

Reports Show Corporate Control Entrenched in Global Food Chain

Putting the Cartel before the Horse...and Farm, Seeds, Soil and Peasants etc: Who Will Control the Agricultural Inputs?

2013-10-24 | Article

Old Story, New Threat

Fracking and the global land grab

2013-10-15 | Article

Civil Society Movements refuse to endorse recommendations on biofuels at UN conference

2013-10-11 | Article

Statement on Rural Women’s Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition

2013-10-10 | Article

October 16 - Global Day of Action for Food Sovereignty

People have the right to land and seeds to produce healthy food, and practice food sovereignty!

2013-10-10 | Article

A Brave New Transatlantic Partnership

The social & environmental consequences of the proposed EU-US trade deal

2013-10-09 | Article

Report Launch on Top Policies that Generate Hunger

Alternatives and Resistance to Policies that Generate Hunger

2013-10-08 | Article

A new Partnership Facility for the United Nations

UN to approve “partnerships” before discussing the new development agenda

2013-10-07 | Article

BRICS in Global Governance

A Progressive and Cooperative Force?

2013-09-27 | Article

Ecuador meeting pushes for lawsuits from transnational corporations against governments to end

2013-09-26 | Article

Reforming the G8's public–private partnership on agriculture and food security

The new Alliance: A new Direction is needed

2013-09-25 | Article

Busting the myths of transparency around the EU-US trade deal

2013-09-19 | Article

Charity slams conduct code for private military and security companies

2013-09-18 | Article

Beyond Voluntarism

The Changing Role of Corporate Social Investment in the Extractive Resources Sector

2013-09-16 | Article

Heated lobbying over Parliament’s agrofuel vote

2013-09-12 | Article

Investment and impunity in an era of crisis - What alternatives?

Challenging corporate power

2013-09-12 | Article

Declaration of Alternative Forum on Business and Human Rights in Colombia

2013 Latin American and Caribeean Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights

2013-09-05 | Article

United Nations' Unions appaled at the UN's use of mercenaries

Unions call for action ahead of 2013 General Assembly

2013-09-04 | Article

Stop the hunger brokers

2013-08-06 | Article

Income Inequality, Wealth, and Illicit Financial Flows in Asia

2013-08-02 | Article

Much Support, But Also Resistance to a UN declaration on the Rights of Peasants

2013-08-02 | Article

Mozambique: Joint Mobilization by Civil Society for the Defence of Resources and Against the Privatization of the Land

2013-08-01 | Article

Alternatives to Food Import Dependency

2013-07-19 | Article

Taxing multinational corporations

OECD chooses a path strewn with obstacles, headed in the wrong direction

2013-07-18 | Article

Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe

2013-07-18 | Article

Public-Private Development Partnerships

Controversial rather than coherent

2013-07-17 | Article

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Could Hurt Developing Countries

What to expect in TPPA talks

2013-07-17 | Article

United Nations UAV armament accelerates and legitimizes arms race

2013-07-10 | Article

Corporate Europe Observatory Calls for Support

2013-07-08 | Article

African Civil Society Groups Protest GMO Agriculture

Countering Africa’s Green Revolution

2013-07-05 | Article

Latin American States Responding to Transnational Corporations' Lawsuits

2013-06-28 | Article

EU Financial Regulations Fail to Curb Food Speculation

EU ministers leave the door open for harmful food speculation

2013-06-18 | Article