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المقال

25 يونيو 2012

الكاتب:
Rosaria Burchielli, Annie Delaney, Conversation [Australia]

Oil for lives? When governments help bad corporations

[T]hree Western governments – the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands – are supporting Shell in the United States Supreme Court, in its attempt to fight off accusations of human rights violations...Shell Oil is accused of being complicit with the Nigerian government in committing war crimes against the Ogoni tribe who were opposing oil extraction in their territory in the 1990s...Governments that have endorsed the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, including the Australian government, must be called to account to behave in ways that are compatible with human rights protection and national foreign policy. If not, they contradict their fundamental obligations and support those who are seeking profit above the lives of human beings. [also refers to Rio Tinto]