Advancing and Strengthening the NCP peer review process
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Civil society organizations call on G20 to protect human rights in global supply chains
As G20 employment and education ministers meet today in Geneva, OECD Watch and civil society organizations around the globe are calling on the G20 to implement key policy recommendations in relation to responsible business conduct…
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The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
A briefing for civil society organisations on the strongest elements for use in advocacy
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The State of Remedy under the OECD Guidelines
Understanding NCP cases concluded in 2017 through the lens of remedy
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OECD Watch calls for reforms to Korean NCP to restore stakeholder confidence
OECD Watch letter expresses concern over performance of South Korean NCP This April, OECD Watch sent a letter to the South Korean NCP and other government ministries expressing concern over the NCP’s performance. The small…
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Submission of OECD Watch for the 2018 Peer Review of the Canadian NCP
The submission outlines ways in which the NCP can advance the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprise and serve as a platform for resolving complaints related to corporate misconduct. The submission was made…
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Independent review: Australian NCP among the poorest performing internationally
Last year, the Foreign Investment Division within Australia’s ‘Treasury’ department commissioned an independent review of the Australian National Contact Point (NCP) to evaluate its effectiveness. Alex Newton, lawyer and specialist in business and human rights,…
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Restoring civil society confidence in the UK NCP
OECD Watch has sent an open letter to the UK NCP to express its concerns regarding the performance of the NCP. For years, the UK NCP had a reputation as one of the best performing…
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“Judicial mechanisms are the backbone of the remedy system, non-judicial the fingertips”
During the opening, “Introduction to Remedy” panel of the 6th annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, SOMO and OECD Watch’s Joseph Wilde-Ramsing got anatomical to describe the relationship between judicial remedy and non-judicial…
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Six secrets to success: Analysis of key success factors for remedy in the case of DRC workers vs. Heineken at the Dutch NCP
During a panel discussion at the 6th annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of OECD Watch, Heineken, the Dutch NCP, and victims from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…