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Title: Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development: the Challenges of Implementation (Fifth Columbia International Investment Conference)
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Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development: the Challenges of Implementation (Fifth Columbia International Investment Conference)
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Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment
Dated:
27 Oct 2010
…Date: October 27, 2010 9:30am - October 28, 2010 5:30PM. Location: Columbia University, New York. The challenges of poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and governance can and should be addressed in an effective sustainability framework for foreign investment…The purpose of this conference is to discuss and assess how past and ongoing initiatives to promote cooperative, transparent, equitable, and efficient FDI in the extractive industries have succeeded…and how success can be scaled up and better implemented in the future to achieve real development outcomes…Registration is required.
Title: UNEP report re oil pollution in Niger Delta [Shell response, statements by Friends of the Earth, UNEP, others]
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UNEP report re oil pollution in Niger Delta [Shell response, statements by Friends of the Earth, UNEP, others]
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compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Dated:
Sep 2010
In August 2010, the following article and statement were published about the UN Environment Programme's forthcoming report on oil pollution in the Niger Delta:
- Outrage at UN decision to exonerate Shell for oil pollution in Niger delta...
- Outrage at Shell-funded UN Report on Nigeria oil spills - Friends of the Earth, 24 Aug 2010
See also: UN to Exonerate Shell From Pollution in Niger Delta - Paul Ohia, This Day [Nigeria], 23 Aug 2010
UNEP issued [a] statement... Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Shell to respond. Shell provided the following statement... [Shell] also pointed to the following videos [by UNEP, CNN] as providing a "picture of the scale and impact of the illegal operations of some in Nigeria"...
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Outrage at UN decision to exonerate Shell for oil pollution in Niger delta
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John Vidal, Guardian [UK]
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A three-year investigation by the United Nations will almost entirely exonerate Royal Dutch Shell for 40 years of oil pollution in the Niger delta...The $10m (£6.5m) investigation by the UN environment programme (UNEP), paid for by Shell, will say that only 10% of oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by equipment failures and company negligence, and concludes that the rest has come from local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging company pipelines...[T]he investigation was accused of bias by Nigerians and environmental groups who said the study...was unbalanced...[Mike Cowing, head of UN research team] denied the UN was being influenced by Shell or the government...The full report, due to be published by December, is expected to warn of an environmental catastrophe..."This is not directly comparable to the spills that occurred in the Gulf [of Mexico]," said Cowing. "But we have a serious and profound problem."
Title: [PDF] Seminar: The unfinished business of Apartheid [Bonn, 24-25 Sep 2010]
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[PDF] Seminar: The unfinished business of Apartheid [Bonn, 24-25 Sep 2010]
Author:
Kosa
Dated:
01 Sep 2010
In 2002 victims of the South African Apartheid filed a claim for compensation in the United States of America against...Daimler, Ford, IBM, General Motors and Rheinmetall are accused of consciously supporting decades the racial system of Apartheid in South Africa...Together with Marjorie Jobson, the director of Khulumani, Charles Abrahams, the victims’ lawyer and further guests we would like to inform about the claim’s background and possibilities of implementing international human rights. In addition we would like to discuss legal options concerning this...The seminar will be held in German and English Language (with simultaneous translation)...[Contributors include: Hein Moellers, Marjorie Jobson, Johanna Kusch, Miriam Saage-Maass, Charles Abrahams]
Title: Lessons from Pakistan: a role for business in disaster resilience
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Lessons from Pakistan: a role for business in disaster resilience
Author:
Sharan Bal, CSR Asia
Dated:
01 Sep 2010
In the aftermath of the Pakistan floods and the mudslides in China, the climate change debate is front and center…In the short term, the relief efforts in Pakistan will focus on providing clean water, minimizing the incidence of diarrhoea, and the spread of disease...However, the long-term relief effort will require rebuilding vital infrastructure, restoring agricultural subsistence…Companies in Pakistan have mainly been involved in immediate relief efforts. These are often more strategic than mere donations…But do companies have a role elsewhere? In Pakistan greater resilience would include developing better emergency monitoring…and better flood protection…Companies have been slow to invest in community adaptation to climate variation, in conjunction with disaster resilience building…[Refers to Procter & Gamble]
Title: U.S. Judge Lets Suit Proceed Against Alleged Fundraisers for Tamil Tigers
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U.S. Judge Lets Suit Proceed Against Alleged Fundraisers for Tamil Tigers
Author:
Mary Pat Gallagher, New Jersey Law Journal
Dated:
01 Sep 2010
A lawsuit accusing a Wall Street hedge fund manager and his father of using a charitable foundation to funnel millions of dollars to the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan terrorist group, can go forward…The suit…concerns the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), a non-profit that the U.S. Treasury Department shut down…for allegedly bankrolling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (aka Tamil Tigers)…The suit…was filed by…Sri Lankan citizens who claim they lost family members or were themselves injured in five bombings carried out by the Tigers in Sri Lanka…U.S. District Judge Dennis Cavanaugh threw out most of the counts in the complaint…But he let stand counts of aiding and abetting, intentionally facilitating and/or recklessly disregarding crimes against humanity in violation of international law and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Title: Public Statement on the International Investment Regime
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Public Statement on the International Investment Regime
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Academics from 24 universities in 9 countries
Dated:
31 Aug 2010
Awards issued by international arbitrators against states have in numerous cases incorporated...interpretations [that] have prioritized the protection of the...interests of transnational corporations over the right to regulate of states and the right to self-determination of peoples....The award of damages as a remedy of first resort in investment arbitration poses a serious threat to democratic choice and the capacity of governments to act in the public interest.. There is a strong moral as well as policy case for governments to withdraw from investment treaties and to oppose investor-state arbitration, including by refusal to pay arbitration awards against them where an award for compensation has followed from a good faith measure that was introduced for a legitimate purpose....Private citizens, local communities and civil society organizations should be afforded a right to participate in decision-making that affects their rights and interests...
Title: Supreme Court to Review 1996 Decision to Lessen Bhopal Gas Tragedy Charges
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Supreme Court to Review 1996 Decision to Lessen Bhopal Gas Tragedy Charges
Author:
P.S. Patnaik, Bloomberg
Dated:
31 Aug 2010
India’s Supreme Court today allowed a government petition that seeks harsher punishment against officials of Union Carbide Corp.’s local unit convicted of negligence in a 1984 toxic gas leak. A three-judge bench…sought a response from…the former chairman of Union Carbide India Ltd., and six senior employees of the firm, on why they couldn’t face more serious charges of culpable homicide…Reviewing the case may pave the way for the Supreme Court to quash its own September 1996 order that diluted charges to death caused by a rash and negligent acts not amounting to culpable homicide. [also refers to Dow Chemical]
Title: Indonesia seeks $2.4bn oil spill compensation
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Indonesia seeks $2.4bn oil spill compensation
Author:
Anthony Deutsch, Financial Times
Dated:
31 Aug 2010
Indonesia is seeking $2.4bn in damages from a Thai drilling company alleging it is responsible for an oil spill in the Timor Sea that has severely hit the livelihoods of fishing communities along its southeast coast. The claim was handed to the Australian subsidiary of Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production PCL…It is unclear how Jakarta arrived at the $2.4bn figure but local officials have cited the severe impact on the marine habitat and the long-term damage to the fishing communities. Anon Sirisaengtaksin, PTTEP’s chief executive, said the “long” claims process was in its early stages, but the company would listen to arguments backed with scientific proof…But the company’s post-disaster monitoring programme indicated there was “minimal” long-term impact on the environment, Mr Sirisaengtaksin said. Oil began flowing into the sea after a blowout at the Montara wellhead in August 2009 in a unique marine habitat in the Coral Triangle . Within weeks, Indonesian fishermen saw drifting clumps of oil and dead fish. The leak, just off the northern coast of Australia, was capped after 74 days…An Australian government commissioned inquiry into the spill was completed more than two months ago, but its findings are yet to be made public…The platform, owned by the Norwegian-Bermudan offshore drilling company Seadrill, was operated by PTTEP Australasia, the Thai company’s subsidiary…
Title: International Conference on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health - the case of Pharmaceutical Transnational Corporations [30-31 Aug, São Paulo]
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International Conference on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health - the case of Pharmaceutical Transnational Corporations [30-31 Aug, São Paulo]
Author:
Center for the Study of Violence (NEV/USP)
Dated:
30 Aug 2010
The Center for the Study of Violence (NEV/USP) would like to invite researchers, professors, students, NGOs, human rights activists and the general public to take part in this forum of discussion, which is going to take place on August 30th and 31st of 2010. In this website, you will be able to register for the event, as well as find other information on the Conference…The event seeks to shed lights on the roles of States and pharmaceutical transnational companies (PTNCs) to respect, protect and fulfill the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health.
Title: Ctg ship-breaker fined for ignoring workers' safety
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Ctg ship-breaker fined for ignoring workers' safety
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Daily Star [Bangladesh]
Dated:
30 Aug 2010
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a ship-breaking yard at Sonaichhari...for ignoring workers' safety and environmental pollution.... This is the first time a ship-breaking yard was penalized...[O]ne worker was killed and four others were injured in a fire on July 12 while cutting an oil tanker of a ship at the ship-breaking yard...
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