Update
Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update – Issue 56, March 2026: Venezuela’s new oil regime: a human rights perspective
This Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update looks at the most significant developments in corporate legal accountability for human rights abuses in the last quarter and includes:
- A highlight on the reform of Venezuela's oil regime from a human rights perspective by Prof. Carlos Lusverti of the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Venezuela.
- Updates to lawsuit profiles, including lawsuits against BHP (re Fundão dam collapse in Brazil, filed in the UK), CACI (re Abu Ghraib detainees’ torture, filed in the US), Meta and Sama (re poor working conditions and human trafficking, filed in Kenya) and Yves Rocher Group (re workers’ rights and union busting in Türkiye, filed in France).
- And more legal updates and key resources on corporate legal accountability.