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…
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…
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’…
‘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…
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…
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…
In “Get Fit: Closing gaps in the OECD Guidelines to make them fit for purpose,” OECD Watch argues for a revision of the Guidelines to close problematic gaps in both standards for multinational enterprises and…
The year 2020 saw disappointing outcomes in community- and civil society-led Guidelines complaints, OECD Watch concludes in its new ‘State of remedy’ paper. OECD Watch State of Remedy 2020 OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) concluded…
On the 20th of April 2021, the Dutch NCP accepted a complaint filed by Peruvian Indigenous groups against oil multinational Pluspetrol. It is the first time a complaint against a “letterbox” company has been declared…
Today, as the OECD celebrates the 20 year anniversary of the creation of the National Contact Points (NCPs) for the OECD Guidelines, OECD Watch launches ‘NCP Evaluations’, a project to assess all 49 NCPs on…