• Our activities

    Re. Attacks against defenders of economical, social and cultural rights in Guatemala
    19 February, by CIFCA, FIDH, OBS, OMCT

    CIFCA and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), are writing to you in order to draw your urgent attention on the following situation. In the wake of the news that the EU is to resume the Association Agreements with Central America, we would like to express our strong concern for the persisting climate of attacks against defenders of economical, social and cultural rights in Guatemala.
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  • Media

    Media Seminar: Reasons to report on Corporate Accountability in the EU
    1 February, by European Coalition for Corporate Justice

    In light of the upcoming developments in 2010, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice organised this seminar to familiarise journalists who focus on EU affairs and/or corporate reporting with the main issues relevant to corporate accountability. The Coalition provided journalists with a wide range of perspectives and policy hints to encourage greater reporting on the role of the EU in improving corporate accountability.
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  • Publications

    ECCJ contribution to the EU2020 consultation
    15 January, by European Coalition for Corporate Justice

    A new sustainable social market economy, as is currently outlined in the EU2020 consultation document, must also include concrete policy proposals to address the negative effects resulting of the operations of European companies worldwide. Unethical operations of European companies have adverse systemic effects in their own national markets as well as in the EU internal market. Currently, the situation in the internal market is such that responsible businesses are competitively disadvantaged and forced to follow the same path and relocate or outsource their production. This contributes to undesired patterns in market development, such as disadvantaging small enterprises or hampering required systemic shifts to a low carbon economy.
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  • Publications

    Proposals for European Regulation on Multinational Corporation Activities
    1 October, by Sherpa

    Made up of several national entities brought together within a group on a global scale, multinational corporations (MNCs) have a predominant position in the international arena and have become unavoidable actors in the globalisation of the economy.
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