CIDSE - International Alliance of Catholic social justice organisations
Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Dec 2025 | Lora Borissova Cabinet member | • Israel • Occupied Palestinian Territory • Trade • Settlements | SRC |
| 04 Dec 2025 | Lora Borissova Cabinet member | • Israel • Occupied Palestinian Territory • Trade • Settlements | — |
| 03 Dec 2025 | Christine O'Dwyer Cabinet member | Presentation of ideas for the EU to consider when discussing the possibility to ban trade with settlements | — |
| 03 Dec 2025 | Antonio Malta Reis Cabinet member | Agriculture and food security in African Union (AU) European Union (EU) relations | SRC |
| 03 Dec 2025 | Christine O'Dwyer Cabinet member | Presentation of ideas for the EU to consider when discussing the possibility to ban trade with settlements | SRC |
| 03 Dec 2025 | Antonio Malta Reis Cabinet member | Agriculture and food security in African Union (AU) European Union (EU) relations | — |
| 13 Jun 2025 | Lora Borissova Cabinet member | • Situation in West Bank/Gaza • Humanitarian diplomacy | — |
| 13 Jun 2025 | Lora Borissova Cabinet member | • Situation in West Bank/Gaza • Humanitarian diplomacy | SRC |
| 03 Jun 2025 | Lora Borissova Cabinet member | • Gaza and the West Bank • Humanitarian Aid • International conference in June | SRC |
| 03 Jun 2025 | Lora Borissova Cabinet member | • Gaza and the West Bank • Humanitarian Aid • International conference in June | — |
| 07 Apr 2025 | Riccardo Rossi Cabinet member | Food security | — |
| 07 Apr 2025 | Riccardo Rossi Cabinet member | Food security | SRC |
| 01 Feb 2024 | Kim-Tobias Eling Cabinet member | humanitarian crisis in Gaza | SRC |
| 01 Feb 2024 | Kim-Tobias Eling Cabinet member | humanitarian crisis in Gaza | — |
| 26 Oct 2023 | Kim-Tobias Eling Cabinet member | Humanitarian situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) | SRC |
| 26 Oct 2023 | Kim-Tobias Eling Cabinet member | Humanitarian situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) | — |
| 09 Dec 2021 | Florian Denis Cabinet member | sustainable corporate governance initiative, CSRD | SRC |
| 09 Dec 2021 | Mairead McGuinness Commissioner | sustainable corporate governance initiative, CSRD | SRC |
| 09 Dec 2021 | Florian Denis Cabinet member | sustainable corporate governance initiative, CSRD | — |
| 22 Mar 2021 | Renaud Savignat Cabinet member | corporate due diligence | — |
| 22 Mar 2021 | Diana Montero Melis Cabinet member | corporate due diligence | — |
| 22 Mar 2021 | Diana Montero Melis Cabinet member | corporate due diligence | SRC |
| 22 Mar 2021 | Renaud Savignat Cabinet member | corporate due diligence | SRC |
| 04 Dec 2020 | Lucrezia Busa Cabinet member | Substainable corporate governance | — |
| 04 Dec 2020 | Lucrezia Busa Cabinet member | Substainable corporate governance | SRC |
Mission & Goals
CIDSE is an international family of Catholic social justice organisations from Europe & North America working together for global justice. Central to CIDSE’s policy formulation and advocacy is its member organisations’ work with local partner organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Contributing to the fight against poverty and inequality, as well as bringing about sustainable development and well-being by challenging global structural injustices are key elements of CIDSE’s mission, which we attempt to achieve through joint advocacy, campaigning and development cooperation work. Our current priority issues are food sovereignty and land justice, corporate power impunity, the relationship between energy and extractivism and their intersections with human rights; decolonisation; feminism; climate and biodiversity justice; economic and political systems, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
EU Legislative Interests
The main EU policies followed by CIDSE work relate to food security, energy and climate change, business and human rights, trade and investment policies, respect for International law in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, AU-EU partnership and global governance.. Specifically, CIDSE has been targeting the following EU policies and legislative proposals: - Omnibus simplification package on sustainability - Corporate sustainability due diligence (Directive 2024/1760) transposition - EU competencies analysis on the UN Legally Binding Instrument on business and human rights - EU Critical Raw Materials Regulation (CRMR) Act - EU Global Gateway - 7th AU-EU Summit and AU-EU agriculture ministerial conference - Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) marketing reform (2023/0227) - Communication from the Commission / COM(2019) 640 final - The European Green Deal incl. "Fit for 55 package" - REPowerEU - EU Biodiversity Strategy - The Horizon Europe framework agreement and the EU-Israel Horizon Europe agreement - EU-Israel Association Agreement - EU foreign policy toward Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. - EU trade policies with Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Communication Activities
CIDSE carries out communication activities —including publications, open letters, events and campaigns— directly linked to the EU policy agendas mentioned above. For details of our work, go to: https://www.cidse.org/areas-of-work/. You can follow CIDSE social media communication channels at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cidse/ https://bsky.app/profile/cidse.bsky.social https://x.com/cidse/ https://www.facebook.com/cidse https://www.youtube.com/user/CIDSEonline/featured
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
CIDSE is member of CONCORD, Climate Action Network-Europe and ELSIA (European Laudato Si' Alliance).
Organisation Members
Broederlijk Delen CAFOD CCFD-Terre Solidaire Cordaid Development and Peace-Caritas Canada Entraide et Fraternité eRko Fastenaktion FEC Focsiv KOO Manos Unidas Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns MISEREOR Partage.lu SCIAF-Caritas Scotland Trócaire Vastenactie Full list with individual weblinks: https://www.cidse.org/who-we-are/our-members/
Connected Legislation