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Article

12 Apr 2009

Author:
AFP

La justicia de EEUU advierte a las grandes firmas por los DDHH

Una reciente avalancha de demandas ante la justicia estadounidense contra empresas acusadas de complicidad en la violación de derechos humanos suena como una advertencia a las grandes firmas...según analistas. Víctimas del régimen del apartheid en Sudáfrica acaban de ser autorizadas a querellarse en Estados Unidos contra varias multinacionales como General Motors o IBM...[se refiere también a Daimler, Rheinmetall, Ford, Shell, Blackwater]

Part of the following timelines

Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa)

Blackwater USA lawsuit (re 16 Sep 2007 Baghdad incident)

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