Red flags?
🚩 Friends with the Trump administration
🚩 A track record of environmental violations
🚩 High hostility towards activists
1/3 🧵
#StemOpEenVrouw
(Grote Defensiedebat | de Balie & Atlantische Commissie)
⚖️ Myanmar victims and civil society organisations, with SOMO's support, have taken the first step towards suing Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor for their role in serious human rights violations in Myanmar.
This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians.
Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...
⚖️ Myanmar victims and civil society organisations, with SOMO's support, have taken the first step towards suing Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor for their role in serious human rights violations in Myanmar.
This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians.
Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...
This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians.
Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...
🧐We got inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD. 🔍
📓Check out our findings and the playbook Big Oil uses to subvert laws that are in the public interest!👇🏼
Its playbook?
- Lobbying
- Funding think tanks
- Media sponsorships
⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it.
www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/
🧐We got inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD. 🔍
📓Check out our findings and the playbook Big Oil uses to subvert laws that are in the public interest!👇🏼
dezwijger.nl/programma/fr...
Our Palestinian partner organisations are targeted because of their key role in accountability efforts, including at the ICC.
Dutch authorities found in our favor on every count in our case against the "Dutch" oil company Pluspetrol for its disastrous oil extraction operations in the Peruvian Amazon
The OECD Dutch NCP has just confirmed that the company failed on:
❌ environmental protection
❌ respect for indigenous rights
❌ right to health
❌ transparency
❌ tax obligations
www.somo.nl/pluspetrol-f...
Dutch authorities found in our favor on every count in our case against the "Dutch" oil company Pluspetrol for its disastrous oil extraction operations in the Peruvian Amazon
🎉 The Dutch government has cancelled three licenses for the export of arms to Israel.
💪 Seven more to go. We will continue to fight in court.
But 7 licences remain. Dog exports continue. So does trade with Israeli settlements.
We are in court on 3️⃣Sep to break the full chain.
No more weapons, dog exports or deals.
🎉 The Dutch government has cancelled three licenses for the export of arms to Israel.
💪 Seven more to go. We will continue to fight in court.
⚠️ The Dutch state is deeply embedded in the machinery that enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, from exporting weapons & attack dogs to financing occupation & shielding corporate profits.
www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
⚠️ The Dutch state is deeply embedded in the machinery that enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, from exporting weapons & attack dogs to financing occupation & shielding corporate profits.
www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
✊ SOMO stands in solidarity her ✊
An attack on her is an attack on international rule of law.
States must act with:
- sanctions
- arms embargo
- corporate accountability
No business as usual during genocide!
#Palestine
✊ SOMO stands in solidarity her ✊
✊ In the face of rising authoritarianism, SOMO challenged corporate power and spoke truth to power
🙌 Want to know more about the impact we had and what we achieved? Check out our 2024 annual report!👇
So we kept rising against the tide 🌊
Swipe for some of our highlights and see everything we achieved at:
somo2024.jaarverslag.org
✊ In the face of rising authoritarianism, SOMO challenged corporate power and spoke truth to power
🙌 Want to know more about the impact we had and what we achieved? Check out our 2024 annual report!👇
🧐 Do AI startups really stand a chance against #BigTech monopolists like Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Nvidia?
🤖Our analysis of the generative AI value chain found that startups are highly dependent on Big Tech, whose entrenched power restricts innovation
🔎 We analysed 12 start-ups' value chains and what we found is clear:
They're highly dependent on Big Tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia.
Read our full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
🧐 Do AI startups really stand a chance against #BigTech monopolists like Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Nvidia?
🤖Our analysis of the generative AI value chain found that startups are highly dependent on Big Tech, whose entrenched power restricts innovation
⚖️ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a report laying out a legal pathway for holding those corporations accountable and liable for their complicity.
💡Read here our analysis of the report.
New report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese exposes corporate complicity and draws a clear pathway for ending it.
Here's our response to the report:
www.somo.nl/new-un-repor...
⚖️ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a report laying out a legal pathway for holding those corporations accountable and liable for their complicity.
💡Read here our analysis of the report.
It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment.
Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it:
🧵👇
It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment.
Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it:
🧵👇
Our new research reveals how the interests of the car industry have steered EU policy to put profits before people and the planet.
Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/manufactured...
Our new research reveals how the interests of the car industry have steered EU policy to put profits before people and the planet.
Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/manufactured...
Yesterday the UK High Court found that Shell can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution in Nigeria, even though Shell has already sought to irresponsibly exit the country. #justtransition
www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
Yesterday the UK High Court found that Shell can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution in Nigeria, even though Shell has already sought to irresponsibly exit the country. #justtransition
www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
New elections now likely. Hopefully the Dutch electorate will stand up to the fascists & end the far-right's grasp at power in NL
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
New elections now likely. Hopefully the Dutch electorate will stand up to the fascists & end the far-right's grasp at power in NL
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
🤗 It's high time we come together to support and celebrate each other in our respective struggles for climate justice, human rights, and people power over corporate power 💪
📅 Friday, 13 June, at the Tolhuistin in Amsterdam
🤗 It's high time we come together to support and celebrate each other in our respective struggles for climate justice, human rights, and people power over corporate power 💪
📅 Friday, 13 June, at the Tolhuistin in Amsterdam
If brands cut ties with Chinese suppliers, they must avoid or minimise harm to workers 🚨
Read our new blog on @business-humanrights.org👇 www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/us-t...
💥 When the harm is clear, but the supply chain is not, we help you connect the dots ⛓️-->🏢
🤩 Check out this blog by colleague Misa with stories about how people are using The Counter to fight corporate abuse and hold companies accountable 💪
We can uncover and piece together scattered data to reveal how companies are linked to abuse and environmental destruction.
Here are some examples of investigations we did ➡️ www.somo.nl/what-compani...
💥 When the harm is clear, but the supply chain is not, we help you connect the dots ⛓️-->🏢
🤩 Check out this blog by colleague Misa with stories about how people are using The Counter to fight corporate abuse and hold companies accountable 💪