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| Oil companies are increasingly being screened for human rights abuses. This sections provides insight into efforts against the impunity of companies such as Total Elf Fina, Unocal and Shell. Please find a short piece and a list of PDF-documents (for download) below. |
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| Links to organisations dedicated to the study and exposure of corporate human rights violations: International Labor Rights Fund Business and Human Rights Resource Centre |
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Categories of Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses |
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CORPORATE COMPLICITY: FROM NUREMBERG TO RANGOON |
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The Alien Tort Claims Act - A Vital Tool for Preventing Corporations from Violating Fundamental Human Rights |
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ExxonMobil - Company Profile |
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Exxon Mobil I |
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Exxon Mobil sued in U.S. Court (source: www.laborrights.org ) |
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Exxon Mobil II |
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Total Fina Elf - Company Profile |
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Total Fina Elf I |
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Criminal Complaint filed in Belgium (en francais): elffina (pdf), source: le monde |
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Total Fina Elf II |
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Myanmar refugees seek Belgium trial for TotalFinaElf (AFP, 8.5.2002) |
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Unocal I |
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Lawsuit against UNOCAL: (unocal_complaint.pdf) source: Center for Constitional Rights, www.ccr-ny.org |
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UNOCAL II |
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Burmese Workers suing Unocal (source: www.laborrights.org) |
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UNOCAL III |
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Unocal Will Stand Trial Over Myanmar Venture ( 13.6.2002, Wall Street Journal) |
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Shell / Royal Dutch - Company Profile |
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Lawsuit against Shell |
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Royal Dutch Petroleum Company / Shell: From "Today's News Update," New York Law Journal, Friday March 1, 2002, pg. 1. Plaintiffs are represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. For more information, www.ccr-ny.org. Southern District Judge Kimba Wood has refused to dismiss two lawsuits charging Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, parent company of Shell Nigeria, and one of its corporate officers with human rights violations in the torture and murder of Nigerian activists who opposed oil drilling on their lands. The judge rejected arguments by Cravath, Swaine & Moore on behalf of the defendants that the claims being asserted were not covered by the applicable statutes. "It is well-recognized that crimes against humanity do not require a connection to international armed conflict," the court wrote. The case, which was brought in 1996 by New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and Washington, D.C., professor Julie Shapiro, alleges that the company gave money and weapons to the Nigerian government to crush the protest movement, and also bribed witnesses to give false testimony against Ken Saro-Wiwa and John Kpuinen, who were hanged after trial in 1995. |
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Texaco on Trial |
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The Case of Nigeria |
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The case of Nigeria: The Role and Responsibilities of the International Oil Companies. Source: Human Rights Watch |
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ICAIs commitment | |
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Efforts against Impunity | |
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The people | |
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Kissinger Watch | |
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Oil Companies Sued | |