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News / 27th June 2022

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…

News / 10th June 2022

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….

News / 16th May 2022

Fighting business impacts on women in Latin America: Practical case workshop on evaluating corporate gender due diligence

  Español abajo Portugués abajo On 17 May 2022, OECD Watch and Latin American region members ProDESC (Mexico), Programa Laboral de Desarrollo (PLADES, Peru), Conectas Direitos Humanos (Brazil), with support of Swedwatch (Sweden) will hold…

News / 21st March 2022

Event March 22: Leveraging environmental & human rights reform in Brazil via its OECD accession process

OECD Watch and partners launch research exposing environmental and human rights governance gaps in Brazil Keynote speakers & panelists discuss human and planetary impacts                       and…

News / 2nd February 2022

New civil society guide to influencing the OECD accession process

Guide helps civil society understand and leverage the opaque and technical process to demand major domestic reforms in candidate states  On 25 January 2022, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced that it…

News / 28th January 2022

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…

News / 25th November 2021

Second evaluation of NCPs shows persistent gaps in performance

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’…

News / 12th October 2021

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…

News / 5th October 2021

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…

News / 22nd September 2021

OECD Watch challenges Canadian NCP’s failure to abide by international commitments

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…

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