Nine years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, avoiding accountability for corporate abuse is still very common. Hiding behind complex supply chains, undermining unions,...
We are pleased to announce that Elena Arengo will be joining PODER as Co-Executive Director in April. Elena will join Fernanda Hopenhaym in the leadership of our organization, projecting PODER’s institutional strength...
May 29, 2019 In July 2018, PODER’s Board of Directors made the decision to change the executive management of the organization to a co-directorship model, consisting of founder Benjamin Cokelet and Fernanda Hopenhaym....
Corruption can be fought if different agents and institutions around the world work together. This declaration consolidates an alliance to work across borders to promote whistleblowing, and calls on governments,...
by Benjamin Cokelet, Founding Co-Executive Director, PODER Adapted from a similar blog post on fiscal governance 20 March 2019 Imagine that your ancestors have lived on the shore of Lake Texcoco, in the valley known...
An international group of civil society organizations submitted today a request for the exclusion of the Brazilian mining company Vale from the United Nations Global Compact, the largest network for corporate social...
Mexico City, November 30, 2018.- Thelma Moiza, representative of the Río Sonora Watershed Committees (CCRS by its Spanish acronym) and resident of the affected community of Bacánuchi, participated, this week, in the UN...
This briefing highlights the importance of a binding gender-just international accountability framework for Transnational Corporations (TNCs), as an agenda in its own right and an integral part of a broader effort to...
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS REQUEST INVESTIGATIONS OF ALMADEN MINERALS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA FOR CONCEALING INFORMATION FROM INVESTORS - The Canadian company breached the disclosure requirements of financial...
ALMADEN MINERALS LISTS NEW SHARES TO FINANCE MINING ACTIVITY IN PUEBLA, WITHOUT OBTAINING EXPLORATION PERMIT - Communities affected by the mining project report that the company has omitted information from investors...
On May 6, 2016, a group of civil society representatives will meet in Mexico's Energy Ministry (SENER) to begin working towards the installation of the Multi-stakeholder Group of the EITI in Mexico, as we...
April 12, 2016. Phoenix, Arizona – When 40 million liters of toxic leaching material and heavy metals from Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista del Cobre copper mine spilled into the Bacánuchi and Sonora Rivers in northern...