Energy

Burning Rubber

Several Liberian farmers and charcoal producers experience harmful effects of the operations of Buchanan Renewables, a company that produces biomass

Garment

Captured by cotton

Big garment brands and retailers have their products made under exploitative and unhealthy conditions by girls in Tamil Nadu, South India. The girls, mostly younger than 18 and from a Dalit ('outcaste') background are employed under the Sumangali Scheme. In its worst form, this employment scheme stands for bonded labour, as described in 'Captured by Cotton', a report published 20 May 2011 by SOMO and the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN).

Corporate Social Responsability

debate 'CSR: is the government still needed?'

Debate 'CSR: is the government still needed?' organized by the MVO Platform on June 14, 2011

Corporate Justice

OECD Watch organised on 7 July 2010 the debate "Corporate Justice? In search of effective remedies for victims of corporate abuse". The whole debate can be watched on the video. Read also the article.

Financial Sector

Feeding the Financial Hype

The report, Feeding the Financial Hype, highlights growing evidence that dramatically increased financial investments in commodity derivatives markets over recent years have caused food prices to soar. This has a negative impact on the poorest people, who spend up to 80 percent of their income on food. SOMO calls on European governments to respect the precautionary principle enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty and to act decisively to bring back financial speculation in commodity derivatives markets. The European Parliament currently has an opportunity to do just this by strengthening the proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID and MiFIR).

How the banks in Brussels make the rules themselves

SOMO researcher Myriam Vander Stichele speaks in Monitor, a German Television program (from minute 2.25)

Voices on Trade Justice

SOMO Senior Researcher Myriam vander Stichele on the financial crisis and the liberalization of financial services.

Financial transaction tax video

A video supported by the PES and the S&D Group in the European Parliament. See Regulate Global Finance Now

What is the role of WTO services rules in the context of the current financial crisis?

Myriam Vander Stichele, senior researcher at SOMO, and Sergio Marchi, senior fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, discuss this topic with Keith Rockwell, WTO Spokesperson.

Extractives & Mining

Uranium mining in Namibia

This video shows the negative consequences of uranium mining for workers and communities in Namibia.

General

2010 New Year's message SOMO

SOMO, your source of information for corporate accountability in 2010. 

Electronics

Bite into a fair Apple

Video report of the International Action Day in The Netherlands

Who's actually responsible for the stuff inside your mobile?

Film of the rightsforpeople campaign, featuring coltan mining in Congo for your mobile.

Shake-up call for fair computers

Students in Europe are highly critical of the purchasing policies of universities of research and universities of applied sciences. They are demanding that ICT is purchased sustainably and fairly by the institutions at which they are studying. Together they made the University of Utrecht shake to awaken higher education in the Netherlands for this important matter.

Young consumers want fair mobile phones

Video report of the handing over of 7000 European signatures to the Dutch mobile phone provider KPN.

What a waste

Phony Equality

Last Chance to Sign the Petition for a fair Apple

A bite into 'Apple' - official trailer

The Truth of the Apple iPad Behind Foxconn’s Lies

GoodElectronics

Presentation of the International Network of Human Rights and Sustainability in the Electronics Sector

Hard(disk) labour

Research into the labour conditions in the Thai Electronic sector

makeITfair

The makeITfair campaign is calling on young people across Europe to help improve the lives of workers in the developing world who make our electronic dreams come true. Go to www.makeitfair.org

Pharmaceutical Industry

Wemos Film on Clinical Drug Trials in Developing Countries

Medical experiments are being conducted on society's most vulnerable, says Indian doctor Amar Jesani in Wemos' internetfilm on clinical drug trials in developing countries.

OECD Watch

OECD Watch members Joris Oldenziel from SOMO and Serena Lillywhite from Oxfam Australia critically reflected on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.