News 2004

November 16, 2004
OECD Watch Newsletter

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October 26, 2004
We agreed to disagree – this is the key conclusion drawn by the parties involved in an OECD complaint case of the German Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) on instances of labour rights violations in two Indonesian supplier factories of adidas. Yet, in spite of an overall disappointing outcome of this case under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, the German CCC considers it to have been far from a useless exercise.

Read here German CCC assessment on Adidas case

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October 11, 2004
OECD Investment Committee: 2004 Report by the Chair of the Annual Meeting of the National Contact Points of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises now available

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August 18, 2004
OECD Watch Review of NCPs 2004 & update of cases now available

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August 16, 2004
Users guide to synergies between OECD Guidelines and GRI Guidelines now available

GRI has developed this user's guide as a contribution to facilitating the use of the OECD MNE Guidelines. The heart of the guide is a comparative table that enables users to identify the GRI indicators that correspond most closely to the individual provisions of the OECD Guidelines.

Read the GRI Users Guide

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August 10, 2004
CIME and CMIT merge into Investment Committee

In April 2004 the Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (CIME) and the Committee on Capital Movements and Invisible Transactions (CMIT) merged into the Investment Committee.
The OECD Investment Committee is responsible for the OECD liberalisation instruments in the field of international investment and services. It interprets and implements the 1976 Declaration and Decisions on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises and is the guardian of the Codes of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and Current Invisible Operations.
Read more about the Investment Committee 

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August 5, 2004
Groups File Complaint With State Department Against Three American Companies Named in UN Report

Allegations of Complicity in Fueling Civil War in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Friend of the Earth-United States (FoE) and the UK-based group Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) filed a formal complaint with the U.S. State Department today against three American companies.

Read the Press release FOE-US & RAID

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August 3-4, 2004
OECD Guidelines Workshop for Brazilian NGOs

In the first week of August, Red Puentes (www.redpuentes.org), in cooperation with OECD Watch, organized a workshop about the OECD Guidelines in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aim of this workshop was to analyse the potential contribution of the OECD Guidelines to CSR in Brazil and to determine how the Guidelines could be used by Brazilian NGOs as a strategic tool for monitoring the activities of multinational enterprises.