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The letter was sent ahead of the IMF Executive Board meeting on 13 April 2022 as part of the Spring Meetings, at which the new planned IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) for on-lending the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) of rich countries will be discussed.

Several development and human rights organisations from across Europe are calling for transparency in the question of which companies are covered by the EU regulation on the conflict minerals tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold / Implementing law for Germany to be passed on Thursday.

WEED warns against new deregulation on the occasion of the G20 summit in Hamburg on 7/8 July - and criticises the inadequate reforms since the financial crisis

WEED calls for the shrinking of major banks and opposes public-private partnerships as a development model for Africa.

52 organisations criticise the negotiations within the framework of the EU-US agreement on financial markets in an open letter

WEED and other organisations are calling on politicians to take action. The occasion is consultations at EU level.

New rules take crucial steps to tackle food speculation

NGOs critizise the Commission's proposals for a revision of MiFID and the new Regulation MiFIR: More robust rules needed to tackle food speculation

Today's vote in the ECON committee of the European Parliament has brought some progress in regulating commodity derivatives markets.