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Is Brazil fit for OECD membership?
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),…
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OECD faults Canada over handling of complaint related to Malaysian political family’s real estate group
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…
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Evaluating corporate due diligence through a gender lens in Latin America
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OECD Watch’s annual ‘State of Remedy’ report finds NCPs still largely failing to facilitate effective remedy outcomes in 2021
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…
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State of Remedy 2021
Understanding OECD Guidelines complaints through the lens of remedy
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OECD’s strong accession roadmap may push Brazil to enact crucial reforms on environment and human rights
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….
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Civil society demands rigorous terms for the accession of Brazil and five other countries to the OECD
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…
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Holding governments accountable for their duty to protect human rights: The Australian National Contact Point and the road to functional equivalence
‘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…
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Nominee shareholdings: UN Human Rights office confirms banks’ human rights responsibilities
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…