🚨We’ve got a new investigation out showing how US oil and gas pipeline giant Energy Transfer – notorious for its involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline & for suing @greenpeace.org – is seeking to gobble up critical European energy infrastructure with the help of the Bully-in-Chief in Washington.

Haha, look at Danielle taking on the patriarchy💪🏼💪🏼 Go, Danielle! 🤩

🚨 BREAKING! Telenor faces legal action over human rights abuses in Myanmar ⚖️ ⚖️ 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.

🚨 Evidence shows how telecoms giant Telenor, through its subsidiary in Myanmar, disclosed sensitive customer mobile phone data like names, call logs, and last known locations. This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians. Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...

🚨 EXPOSED! How does Big Oil kill 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!👇🏼

If you're in the Netherlands, come join us tonight for an inspiring conversation with Peruvian Indigenous leaders and Dutch parliamentarians about making oil companies that are destroying the Amazon pay to clean it up!

We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian partners ✊🏾✊🏼

🎉 WE WON! 💪 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

🚨 BIG development in our legal case against the Dutch state for facilitating Israel's wat crimes in Gaza. 🎉 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.

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We're suing the Dutch government for enabling Israel's genocide in Gaza. Why? ⚠️ 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 new US sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Albanese are an attack on international justice and the rule of law. ✊ SOMO stands in solidarity her ✊

🤩 I'm incredibly proud of what SOMO & our partners have been able to achieve in the past year! 💪 ✊ 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!👇

🤔Who are the real winners of the AI race? 🧐 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

💸 Corporations are profiting from Israel's crimes in Palestine ⚖️ 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.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement lets companies run away from the harm they cause and blocks a just fossil fuels phase-out. ⛔️ 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: 🧵👇

🇪🇺🚗 The EU car industry is NOT in crisis. It’s profitable, powerful, and using its influence to delay climate action. 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...

🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️ 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...

Verontrustende ontwikkeling; Colombiaanse mensenrechtenverdediger die zou spreken bij de VN in Geneve en bij Nederlandse universiteiten, werd vastgehouden op Schiphol en is vanochtend uitgezet. Samen met @christinepvdd.bsky.social spoedvragen gesteld ⤵️

BIG! Dutch gov't collapses as extreme-right Wilders pulls out of the coalition, after disagreement over his hard-line stance on asylum. 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...

🥳 The next AMS BHR - Climate Justice Happy Hour is here! 🍻🥂💃🕺🎉 🤗 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

🚨JUST IN! SOMO investigation reveals Dutch businessmen supplying key components for weapons systems to Israel, possible complicity in genocide.

Check out my new blog with my brilliant colleague Misa Norigami about the impacts the Trump trade war and tariff chaos is having on Chinese factory workers!

🧐 What companies hide, SOMO's The Counter reveals 🔍 💥 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 💪

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🔥 The World Bank is Gaslighting Ghana 💡As the US calls for the Bank to continue investing in fossil fuels, we've got new research or with ActionAid Ghana revealing how World Bank funding has driven crippling debt and fossil fuel dependency in Ghana. ⚖️ Ghana deserves affordable, sustainable energy.

💦Save your tiers for another day and another law, VdL 💡 Our new briefing shows how harmful the Euro Commission's #omnibus proposal to limit the scope of the #csddd to the first tier is 🥑 91% of suppliers to EU supermarkets would be out of scope, weakening the law, rendering it a tick-box exercise

🚨 BREAKING: SOMO investigation reveals how Dutch dogs are used to terrorize Palestinian children and elderly people, with fatal consequences. 📄 Leaked documents suggest Dutch companies exported attack dogs to Israel. Testimonies from Palestinians in Gaza show they have been terrorized by such dogs

💡 The Trump-Musk far-right broligarch alliance reveals how harmful excessive corporate power is, but also an opportunity for meaningful change to our political & economic strcutures. No return to status quo! Thanks for your leadership & vision @daniellehirsch.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social

🤩 #AwesomeJob alert! 🚨 Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for supervising activist research & investigations about some of the most urgent global issues of our day including climate chaos, consolidating corporate power & assaults on civic space & human rights? See here! lnkd.in/dda3wHHj

⚖️ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" once said the great Martin Luther King Jr, in a letter he wrote from an Alabama jail in 1963 Dear @greenpeace.org, we are with you ✊ An attack on one of us is an attack on us all. #InSolidarityWithGreenpeace www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...

⚖️ As companies & governments in the Global North drag their feet & sidestep climate commitments, communities in the Global South are increasingly using the power of law & courts to prevent the harmful impacts of carbon offsetting & stand up to this neocolonial industry 💪 www.somo.nl/courts-as-sp...

🤝 The TrumpMusk alliance is a stark reminder of how collusion between market & political power threatens people, economic resilience & democracy itself 🤩 Join us on March 27 in Amsterdam to tackle this. With: @daniellehirsch.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social Interested? Email [email protected]

How do we counter the growing concentration of power in the hands of just a few CEOs? Join us Thursday 27/03 to tackle this question w/ @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @daniellehirsch.bsky.social @coricrider.com and many many more. ✨ If you would like to attend, reach out to us at [email protected]

🤩 Could you be my new colleague?? ✨ 📣 We're hiring a communications specialist who can help us communicate sharply and powerfully in both English and Dutch. 💪 🤝Join our amazing Amsterdam-based team @somoamsterdam.bsky.social 👊 Is this you? Apply here! 👇 www.somo.nl/communicatio...

🔍 The Counter is SOMO's pro bono corporate research helpdesk for activists, civil society, journalists & litigators. 🤩 Join us for this free webinar with my amazing colleagues Roberta & Misa to find out how The Counter can help you! 🗓️ Thursday, 20 March 2025, 10am CET www.somo.nl/the-counter/...

🤔 While Big Business and von der Leyen cry "competitiveness" to eviscerate the #csddd with the #omnibus proposal, we at SOMO looked into the facts and found different reality. 💡Companies could comply with the CSDDD by paying a tenth of a percent less to their shareholders. Check out the facts! 👇

It was perhaps to be expected but it is now clear that the European Commission's talk about "simplifying" the CSDDD was simply a lie and ploy to eviscerate and kneecap it. Anakin has betrayed Padmé. But we won't give up the fight. We all know how that story ends! 💪 www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...

🛑REALITY CHECK: Corporate impunity is back on the table! @ec.europa.eu's leaked Omnibus proposal isn't about simplifying; it is deregulation designed to dismantle CSDDD. Remember Shell's oil spills in Nigeria? This is the reality check needed when considering Omnibus. EU must say #NoToOmnibus!

🚨 Shareholders over solutions 🤯 We've got new research out exposing how EU firms in key energy transition sectors generated €2.1 trillion in net profit and distributed over 75% of that — €1.6 trillion — to shareholders, rather than spending it on the transition or R&D. www.somo.nl/shareholders...

💡We've got new research out today exposing ING Bank's misleading reporting about its investment in oil & gas 🤔 ING reported just €2.5bn in fossil investment in 2023. The actual amount is over 10x that, a shocking €26.4bn. 💪 Great sleuth work by my SOMO colleague @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social

🤔 Wondering which companies & sectors are covered by the EU's new corporate accountability law, the CSDDD? 💡SOMO's Datahub shows 3,400 European corporations & nearly 1,000 non-EU corporations will need to comply with the law 🤩 Want to know more? Check out the Datahub! 👉 www.somo.nl/csddd-datahu...

We leven in 2025, en nog steeds werken 160 miljoen kinderen in de mijnbouw, landbouw, industrie. Daar moet een eind aan komen. Europa moet nu doorpakken. In Nederland ligt bovendien de Wet Zorgplicht Kinderarbeid klaar. Het is de hoogste tijd voor actie. Opinie met @donceder.bsky.social

At a time when we need policymakers to pass (& protect) strong laws, not rely on weak certification, the new Consolidated Mining Standard is exactly the wrong move for human rights & environment. More in @josephwilde.bsky.social + my joint piece in @euobserver.com: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

🪙 All that glitters is not gold. No one knows this better than the mining industry. 🤔 Want to know why a new mining industry certification standard will do more harm than good? 💡 Check out the new blog @hrw.org's Juliane Kippenberg & I just published on EUobserver! 👉 euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Our CSDDD Datahub is live! A searchable, filterable database that will help you identify which companies will have to comply with the law when it comes into force. Check it out!

Billionaires & CEOs of multinational corporations are meeting again in Davos next week. Yet there's one topic of conversation, one step they'll avoid like the plague, one that is devastatingly obvious.. a tax on the excessive wealth of billionaires. It's time people! www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...

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Mother Nature doesn't care if you believe in climate change or not... (McDonald's in flames in Los Angeles)

🤔 Want to better understand monopoly power and how control of global supply chains works? 💡Check out this thread and the blog by my @somoamsterdam.bsky.social colleague @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social