[refers to recently-adopted U.N. norms on business & human rights; U.N. Global Compact; lawsuits in U.S. courts under the Alien Tort Claims Act]
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ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh)
Indonesia: After two decades, ExxonMobil settles case of alleged human rights abuses including torture brought by Aceh villagers
Date:
16 May 2023
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After more than twenty years, ExxonMobil has settled a lawsuit brought by Aceh villagers in Indonesia over allegations of human rights abuses.
US judge rules that ExxonMobil case about allegations of complicity in violence in Indonesia can go to trial after 21 years
Date:
27 Jul 2022
Content Type:
Article
Eleven villagers from Aceh Province allege they and their family members were tortured, sexually assaulted, raped and beaten in and around the ExxonMobil oil and gas plant located in the city of Lhoksukon during the late 1990s and early 2000s. ExxonMobil has denied being aware of any human rights violations at the time and argued it cannot be held responsible.
US judge orders ExxonMobil to pay nearly $290,000 to plaintiff’s lawyer following botched deposition in lawsuit over company's alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Aceh, Indonesia
Date:
25 Apr 2022
Content Type:
Article
"US court orders oil giant to pay nearly $290,000 to plaintiff’s counsel following botched deposition."
Trial in US lawsuit against ExxonMobil over alleged complicity in torture & beatings by military in Indonesia could start after 20 years
Date:
3 Jan 2022
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Article
"Villagers in Aceh say they were tortured by 'Exxon Army' hired by gas plant." The company denies the allegations.
Exxon Human Rights Case Survives — on Claim that Execs Knew All Along
Date:
21 Jul 2015
Content Type:
Article
Access to justice for victims of human rights abuses needs to be strengthened
Date:
4 Dec 2014
Content Type:
Article
ExxonMobil Indonesian Villagers Human Rights Abuse Cases to Proceed in Federal Court
Date:
25 Sep 2014
Content Type:
Article
In Exxon suit, judge leaves opening for villagers
Date:
25 Sep 2014
Content Type:
Article
US federal appeals courts issue conflicting decisions regarding extraterritoriality in Alien Tort lawsuits against CACI & Chiquita
Date:
29 Jul 2014
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Out of Bounds - Accountability for Corporate Human Rights Abuse After Kiobel
Date:
30 Sep 2013
Content Type:
Article
Case profile: ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh)
Date:
12 Jul 2013
Content Type:
Article
Corporate liability for violating international law under The Alien Tort Statute: The corporation through the lens of globalization and privatization
Date:
10 Jul 2013
Content Type:
Article
The Supreme Court: Corporate America's Employees of the Month
Date:
27 Jun 2013
Content Type:
Article
Human rights violations can be costly for business
Date:
14 Jun 2013
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Bulletin – Issue 9, June 2013
Date:
8 Jun 2013
Content Type:
Article
Companies Shielded as U.S. Court Cuts Human-Rights Suits
Date:
17 Apr 2013
Content Type:
Article
Did ExxonMobil Pay Torturers?
Date:
5 Oct 2012
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Kiobel and Corporate Social Responsibility: An Issues Brief
Date:
4 Sep 2012
Content Type:
Article
In Kiobel filings, human rights group queries AG Holder conflicts
Date:
17 Jul 2012
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Submission on Oil & Gas sector discussion paper
Date:
30 Jun 2012
Content Type:
Article
ExxonMobil CEO ignores Ground Zero of Energy Security
Date:
29 Jun 2012
Content Type:
Article
Another Supreme Court boost for corporate unaccountability?
Date:
13 Mar 2012
Content Type:
Article
Corporate liability under Alien Tort Statute: Don't elevate form over substance
Date:
26 Sep 2011
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] The Alien Tort Claims Act and Trans-Boundary Corporate Environmental Abuse: A Case Study of the Gulf Oil Spill
Date:
31 Aug 2011
Content Type:
Article
Exxon Wants Rehearing In Corporate Liability Dispute [USA]
Date:
10 Aug 2011
Content Type:
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Supreme Court May Consider Whether Companies Can Be Sued Over Human Rights [USA]
Date:
10 Aug 2011
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Article
UPDATE: ExxonMobil Selling Gas Assets At Center Of Indonesia Human-Rights Lawsuit
Date:
8 Aug 2011
Content Type:
Article
The Global Lawyer: Corporate Alien Tort Rouses from Its Deathbed
Date:
18 Jul 2011
Content Type:
Article
Appeals Court Revives Torture Claims Against Exxon [USA]
Date:
8 Jul 2011
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Article
Exxon Seeks Dismissal of Alien Tort Case Originating in Indonesia
Date:
22 Feb 2011
Content Type:
Article
US Appeals Court Weighs Consequences of Indonesians' Lawsuit Against Exxon
Date:
25 Jan 2011
Content Type:
Article
Shortening the Long Arm of the Law [USA]
Date:
7 Oct 2010
Content Type:
Article
ERI Files Brief Supporting Indonesian Victims' Case Against ExxonMobil
Date:
15 Sep 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Think globally, sue locally: Out-of-court tactics employed by plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their advocates in transnational tort cases
Date:
31 May 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Launch of online portal on “Business, Conflict & Peace”
Date:
31 May 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Universal Periodic Review – United States of America Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date:
19 Apr 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Human Rights Due Diligence: Is It Too Risky? [scroll to p. 6]
Date:
1 Jan 2010
Content Type:
Article
Judge Dismisses Indonesians' Lawsuit Against Exxon
Date:
30 Sep 2009
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] John Doe VIII v. Exxon Mobil Corporation - Memorandum Opinion
Date:
30 Sep 2009
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Article
ExxonMobil seeks to toss Indonesia suit
Date:
27 Jul 2009
Content Type:
Article
Exxon Asks Judge to Dismiss Suit by Indonesian Villagers
Date:
27 Jul 2009
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Article
Human rights abuses: How complicit are oil companies?
Date:
29 Jun 2009
Content Type:
Article
Shell settles human rights suit for $15.5M
Date:
8 Jun 2009
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Article
Lawsuits target oil company operations overseas
Date:
3 Jun 2009
Content Type:
Article
The U.S. Can't Be the World's Court - New York isn't the right venue to sue for apartheid abuses.
Date:
26 May 2009
Content Type:
Article
Five Tips to Avoid the Human Rights Litigation Trap
Date:
26 Mar 2009
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches world’s first online portal profiling human rights lawsuits against companies
Date:
28 Oct 2008
Content Type:
Article
Exxon Human Rights abuse in Aceh
Date:
3 Sep 2008
Content Type:
Article
Judge Rejects Summary Judgment in Human Rights Lawsuit Against Exxon
Date:
28 Aug 2008
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Exxon en procès pour torture
Date:
28 Aug 2008
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Article
[PDF] John Doe I, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al. - Memorandum & Opinion
Date:
27 Aug 2008
Content Type:
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Human Rights Violations Suit Against Exxon Will Be Heard
Date:
19 Aug 2008
Content Type:
Article
Exxon Loses Bid to Shield Information From Federal Court Records
Date:
12 Aug 2008
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] John Doe, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al. - Memorandum Opinion
Date:
11 Aug 2008
Content Type:
Article
Exxon deberá responder a acusaciones de violación de DDHH
Date:
16 Jun 2008
Content Type:
Article
[US] Court rejects Exxon appeal in human rights case
Date:
16 Jun 2008
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Article
Droits de l'Homme : Exxon accusé
Date:
16 Jun 2008
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Article
To Avoid Risk of Alien Tort Claims Act Cases, Companies Must Improve Human Rights
Date:
17 Aug 2007
Content Type:
Article
Alabama Company Is Exonerated in Murders at Colombian Mine
Date:
27 Jul 2007
Content Type:
Article
Exxon faces lawsuit on killings in Indonesia [USA]
Date:
17 Jan 2007
Content Type:
Article
Oil Companies Revamp Ethical Plans as Legal Risk Grows
Date:
13 Oct 2006
Content Type:
Article
Why all companies should address human rights (and how the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre can help)
Date:
31 Aug 2006
Content Type:
Article
BP, Suncor, and Shell Top Oil Sector Sustainability Rating; Chevron and ExxonMobil Rank Low
Date:
1 Aug 2006
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Article
[PDF] Brief on Corporations and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region - Prepared for Professor John Ruggie, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General for Business and Human Rights
Date:
31 Jul 2006
Content Type:
Article
full report: "Too High a Price: The Human Rights Cost of the Indonesian Military’s Economic Activities"
Date:
21 Jun 2006
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Article
[PDF] Win or Lose in Court
Date:
20 Jun 2006
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Stand up to rights abuse, Exxon tells executives
Date:
24 May 2006
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Article
ExxonMobil in Aceh
Date:
17 Apr 2006
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Article
Abuses by int'l firms in RI [Republic of Indonesia] to be raised with UN
Date:
13 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
Exxon Mobil says Aceh torture lawsuit sets dangerous precedent
Date:
8 Mar 2006
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Article
[PDF] Corporate Action Network Magazine
Date:
1 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
[DOC] Remarks by John G. Ruggie - Business & Human Rights Seminar - Old Billingsgate, London, December 8, 2005
Date:
8 Dec 2005
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Villagers' suit will be in a state court [USA]
Date:
21 Oct 2005
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[DOC] Conférence de Wilton Park sur les entreprises et les droits de l’homme - Allocution inaugurale
Date:
10 Oct 2005
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Liability Forges a New Morality
Date:
3 Aug 2005
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Groups Call on ExxonMobil to be Transparent About its Relationship With Indonesian Military in Aceh; Urge Pension Fund Industry & Institutional Investors to Vote "Yes" on XOM Shareholder Resolution
Date:
4 May 2005
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Proxy Statement - Item 6 – Aceh Security Report
Date:
13 Apr 2005
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[PDF] Business befriends human rights
Date:
1 Apr 2005
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U.S.: Rights Advocates Hail 'Landmark' Settlement With American Corporation
Date:
24 Mar 2005
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The Business of Torture
Date:
11 Mar 2005
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Article
Advocates: Tsunami aid only part of picture
Date:
25 Jan 2005
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Article
Foreign crimes come home to the US
Date:
15 Dec 2004
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Article
Globalization Debate: Broken Promises Vs. Free Trade Mantra
Date:
12 Dec 2004
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Article
Human rights: Can multinationals be held accountable?
Date:
20 Nov 2004
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Article
[PDF] Oil and Human Rights
Date:
1 Oct 2004
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence [OGEL] - Special Feature on Corporate Social Responsibility
Date:
1 Oct 2004
Content Type:
Article
Unocal decision impacts Shell, Coca-Cola, Exxon [part of ExxonMobil] and Gap
Date:
18 Sep 2004
Content Type:
Article
The questions over aiding and abetting
Date:
1 Aug 2004
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Article
U.S. Courts Tackle Foreign Abuses - Energy corporations question 'law of nations'
Date:
26 Jul 2004
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Article
[PDF] full report: "In Our Court: ATCA, Sosa and the Triumph of Human Rights"
Date:
30 Jun 2004
Content Type:
Article
States and Corporations: Legal Responsibilities to the People
Date:
31 May 2004
Content Type:
Article
Big Business Attacks ATCA in New York Times; ERI's Rebuttal
Date:
12 Apr 2004
Content Type:
Article
Recent ATCA Cases Against Corporate Defendants
Date:
8 Mar 2004
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Courting Responsibility
Date:
10 Feb 2004
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Article
Human rights for all people for all times
Date:
9 Dec 2003
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Article
Slave Labor? Unocal is being sued in the U.S. for ignoring abuses in Burma. It's the next globalization battle
Date:
24 Nov 2003
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Article
Multinationals and accountability
Date:
19 Aug 2003
Content Type:
Article
U.S. Courts' role in foreign feuds comes under fire
Date:
3 Aug 2003
Content Type:
Article
Laws of Empire
Date:
7 Jul 2003
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A Needed Human Rights Law [USA]
Date:
2 Jun 2003
Content Type:
Article
Oil and Human Rights - Environmental and Human Rights Impacts of the ONG Industry [oil & natural gas industry]
Date:
1 Mar 2003
Content Type:
Article
ExxonMobil in Aceh [Indonesia]
Date:
1 Feb 2003
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Legal Issues in Corporate Citizenship
Date:
31 Jan 2003
Content Type:
Article
Abuse of 18th Century Law Threatens U.S. Economic and Security Interests
Date:
25 Jan 2003
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Judging Corporate Accountability in theGlobal Economy
Date:
31 Dec 2002
Content Type:
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Powell's Awkward Position [USA/Aceh-Indonesia]
Date:
29 Aug 2002
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Letter to Secretary Powell [U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell] Regarding Aceh Lawsuit [Indonesia]
Date:
26 Aug 2002
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Statement Regarding NGO Human Rights Lawsuit - Aceh, Indonesia
Date:
13 Aug 2002
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U.S. Government Tries to Kill Human-Rights Case against ExxonMobil
Date:
12 Aug 2002
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U.S. Backs Oil Giant on Lawsuit in Indonesia
Date:
8 Aug 2002
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ExxonMobil Responds
Date:
8 Aug 2002
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Groups Shocked as Officials Urge Judge to Back ExxonMobil
Date:
8 Aug 2002
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ExxonMobil welcomes US backing on Aceh human rights lawsuit
Date:
8 Aug 2002
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Text of the Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil: I [part 1 of 2]
Date:
8 Aug 2002
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Individuals struggle to hold corporations accountable for abuses
Date:
8 Aug 2002
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Article
U.S./Indonesia: Bush Backtracks on Corporate Responsibility
Date:
7 Aug 2002
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U.S. Moves to Block Human-Rights Lawsuit Against Exxon Mobil
Date:
6 Aug 2002
Content Type:
Article
US tries to halt rights suit against Exxon
Date:
5 Aug 2002
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Article
State Department Adopts "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" Stance in Case that Pits Indonesian Villagers Against Exxon Mobil
Date:
2 Aug 2002
Content Type:
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full text of U.S. State Department letter: Text of State Department Opinion Regarding ExxonMobil Litigation
Date:
29 Jul 2002
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Exxon Under Fire in Indonesia
Date:
16 Jul 2002
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Indonesia's Guerrilla War Puts Exxon Under Siege
Date:
14 Jul 2002
Content Type:
Article
Corporate Human Rights [human rights lawsuits agains multinationals in U.S. courts]
Date:
26 Jun 2002
Content Type:
Article
ExxonMobil-Sponsored Terrorism?
Date:
14 Jun 2002
Content Type:
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ExxonMobil Fights Indonesia Rights Suit
Date:
30 May 2002
Content Type:
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Exxon Mobil under fire [Aceh]
Date:
1 Feb 2002
Content Type:
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Recent ILRF [International Labor Rights Fund] Cases to Enforce Human Rights Under the ATCA
Date:
1 Dec 2001
Content Type:
Article
Litigation Update: A Summary of Recent Developments in U.S. Cases Brought Under the Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Protection Act
Date:
30 Nov 2001
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ExxonMobil's Troubled Relationship in Aceh
Date:
19 Sep 2001
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Aceh: Lawsuit accuses Exxon Mobil of complicity in abuses
Date:
1 Aug 2001
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Deadly Drilling in Aceh
Date:
1 Jul 2001
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Exxon in human rights trouble
Date:
22 Jun 2001
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Exxon accused of rights abuses
Date:
22 Jun 2001
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Aceh: Exxon Mobil shuts down
Date:
1 May 2001
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Unocal lawsuit (re Myanmar)
Commentary: The Legal Case Map, a key resource for firms' human rights & modern slavery risk management
Date:
19 Apr 2017
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] The Third Pillar: Access to Judicial Remedies for Human Rights Violations by Transnational Business
Date:
18 Dec 2016
Content Type:
Report
New Report Examines Evolution and Future of Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts
Date:
1 Oct 2013
Content Type:
Article
Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking: Is Business Ready to Face Up to It?
Date:
14 Jan 2013
Content Type:
Article
Alien Tort Backup Plan
Date:
1 Jan 2013
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Investor Statement for Human Rights and in Support of the U.S. Alien Tort Statute
Date:
2 Oct 2012
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Submission on Oil & Gas sector discussion paper
Date:
30 Jun 2012
Content Type:
Article
Another Supreme Court boost for corporate unaccountability?
Date:
13 Mar 2012
Content Type:
Article
Cuando el gran dinero choca con los derechos humanos [USA]
Date:
28 Feb 2012
Content Type:
Article
When big business and human rights collide
Date:
26 Feb 2012
Content Type:
Article
Corporate Accountability Now
Date:
21 Feb 2012
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Corporate Liability of Energy/Natural Resources Companies at National Law for Breach of International Human Rights Norms
Date:
31 Dec 2011
Content Type:
Article
Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability [book]
Date:
1 May 2011
Content Type:
Article
Better Safe than Sorry
Date:
1 Feb 2011
Content Type:
Article
Trial trails: An American court blocks human-rights suits against businesses
Date:
7 Oct 2010
Content Type:
Article
Shortening the Long Arm of the Law [USA]
Date:
7 Oct 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Think globally, sue locally: Out-of-court tactics employed by plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their advocates in transnational tort cases
Date:
31 May 2010
Content Type:
Article
ERI Submits Reports to the U.N. on U.S. Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Litigation
Date:
19 Apr 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Stakeholder Submission on United States Obligations to Respect, Protect and Remedy Human Rights in the Context of Business Activities
Date:
19 Apr 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Universal Periodic Review – United States of America Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date:
19 Apr 2010
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Human Rights Due Diligence: Is It Too Risky? [scroll to p. 6]
Date:
1 Jan 2010
Content Type:
Article
[audio] Globalising justice
Date:
1 Dec 2009
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Special event: Martyn Day & Paul Hoffman speaking on “Human rights lawsuits against companies – our experiences with victims, their families and businesspeople” (London, 3 Dec 2009)
Date:
28 Sep 2009
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Getting it Wrong: Flawed "Corporate Social Responsibility" and Misrepresentations Surrounding Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Pipeline in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)
Date:
1 Sep 2009
Content Type:
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[PDF] Total Impact: The Human Rights, Environmental, and Financial Impacts of Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Project in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)
Date:
1 Sep 2009
Content Type:
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Human rights abuses: How complicit are oil companies?
Date:
29 Jun 2009
Content Type:
Article
Lawsuits target oil company operations overseas
Date:
3 Jun 2009
Content Type:
Article
Old law exhumed by fighters for human rights [USA]
Date:
25 May 2009
Content Type:
Article
Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses
Date:
21 May 2009
Content Type:
Article
ERI Speaks to Oil Industry: New Investment in Military-Ruled Burma Poses Huge Risks to Companies
Date:
28 Apr 2009
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Obstacles to Justice and Redress for Victims of Corporate Human Rights Abuse
Date:
2 Nov 2008
Content Type:
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[PDF] Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
Date:
1 Nov 2008
Content Type:
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Open Wounds - Big Oil and Big Mining face a host of allegations that they helped commit human rights abuses
Date:
30 Sep 2008
Content Type:
Article
Bad Business: Why Companies Shouldn't Trade with Abusive Regimes
Date:
30 Apr 2008
Content Type:
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Watchdog group says Chevron complicit in Myanmar
Date:
29 Apr 2008
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Report: Chevron financing, profiting from and liable for human rights abuses in Burma (Myanmar)
Date:
29 Apr 2008
Content Type:
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Corporate Operations in Burma Fuel Human Rights Abuses, Say Shareowner Activists
Date:
26 Oct 2007
Content Type:
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Analysis: Gas, oil get Myanmar off hook
Date:
27 Sep 2007
Content Type:
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United States: Corporate Liability For Human Rights Abuses Goes On Trial
Date:
23 Jul 2007
Content Type:
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Hey, We Just Fly the Planes [Alien Tort Claims Act & Valuation of Companies]
Date:
11 Jun 2007
Content Type:
Article
United States: The Bottom Line - Corporate Social Responsibility Works, And Progressives Shouldn’t Abandon It
Date:
12 Apr 2007
Content Type:
Article
Burma: Natural Gas Project Threatens Human Rights - South Korean, Indian Investments May Lead to Complicity in Abuses
Date:
24 Mar 2007
Content Type:
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[PDF] Prepared Remarks at Clifford Chance
Date:
19 Feb 2007
Content Type:
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11th Circuit Asked to Clarify Corporate Liability [USA]
Date:
30 Oct 2006
Content Type:
Article
The UN Human Rights Norms for Corporations: The Private Implications of Public International Law
Date:
28 Oct 2006
Content Type:
Article
Oil Companies Revamp Ethical Plans as Legal Risk Grows
Date:
13 Oct 2006
Content Type:
Article
Global Lawyer: The Death of Alien Tort
Date:
1 Oct 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] full report: "The International Law Standard for Corporate Aiding and Abetting Liability"
Date:
1 Jul 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] full report: "Supply and Command - Natural Gas in Western Burma set to entrench military rule"
Date:
1 Jul 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Win or Lose in Court
Date:
20 Jun 2006
Content Type:
Article
Court Denies Unocal's Efforts to Shift Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses [in Burma] to its Insurers
Date:
14 Jun 2006
Content Type:
Article
Total Denial
Date:
10 Jun 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Order denying Unocal’s motion for partial summary judgment regarding Lexington’s defense of concealment
Date:
5 Jun 2006
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Article
Ominous Outlook for the UN Norms
Date:
22 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
Mapping out the way ahead for business and human rights
Date:
12 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
«Les Etats ne sont pas les seuls responsables des violations des droits humains»
Date:
12 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
Understanding corporate complicity: Extending the notion beyond existing laws [speech by Irene Khan, Amnesty International, to Business & Human Rights Seminar, London, Dec 2005]
Date:
8 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Corporate Action Network Magazine
Date:
1 Mar 2006
Content Type:
Article
Defining Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
Date:
22 Feb 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Rapport intérimaire du Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général chargé de la question des droits de l'homme et des sociétés transnationales et autres entreprises
Date:
22 Feb 2006
Content Type:
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[PDF] Informe provisional del Representante Especial del Secretario General sobre la cuestión de los derechos humanos y las empresas transnacionales y otras empresas comerciales
Date:
22 Feb 2006
Content Type:
Article
Interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Date:
22 Feb 2006
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Article
Going Nowhere
Date:
23 Jan 2006
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] Presentación Conjunta de ONG - Consulta Sobre Derechos Humanos y la Industria Extractiva
Date:
9 Dec 2005
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[PDF] Présentation Conjointe D’Ong - Consultation sur les droits de l’homme et l’industrie extractive
Date:
9 Dec 2005
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[PDF] Joint NGO Submission, Consultation on Human Rights and the Extractive Industry
Date:
9 Dec 2005
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Article
[DOC] Remarks by John G. Ruggie - Business & Human Rights Seminar - Old Billingsgate, London, December 8, 2005
Date:
8 Dec 2005
Content Type:
Article
Senator Feinstein's Now-Withdrawn Statute Limiting Non-Citizens' Tort Claims:
How Would It Have Affected Abu-Ghraib-Related Civil Suits and Other Similar Civil Actions?
Date:
31 Oct 2005
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] L'Alien Tort Claims Act [ATCA, Etats-Unis]: une possibilité intéressante mais menacée
Date:
30 Oct 2005
Content Type:
Article
The story you haven't heard about ... The Yadana Project in Myanmar
Date:
3 Oct 2005
Content Type:
Article
Historic Advance for Universal Human Rights: Unocal to Compensate Burmese Villagers
Date:
3 Oct 2005
Content Type:
Article
[DOC] Regulations for Corporations: A historical account of TNC regulation
Date:
1 Oct 2005
Content Type:
Article
[PDF] The Unocal Settlement: Implications for the Developing Law on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
Date:
21 Sep 2005
Content Type:
Article
Wrangle Prolongs Allocation of Unocal Payout
Date:
17 Aug 2005
Content Type:
Article
Lack of Human Rights Policy Concerns Chevron Shareowners in Light of Unocal Merger
Date:
16 Aug 2005
Content Type:
Article
Tentative Settlement of ATCA [Alien Tort Claims Act] Human Rights Suits Against Unocal
Date:
24 Jul 2005
Content Type:
Article
Pirates of the Corporation - Holding American companies responsible for high crimes committed overseas
Date:
30 Jun 2005
Content Type:
Article
ChevronTexaco critics band together
Date:
27 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
A Big Win for Human Rights
Date:
21 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
Belgium to reopen rights probe on Total in Myanmar
Date:
14 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
Statement of EarthRights International Regarding ChevronTexaco’s Acquisition of Unocal
Date:
11 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
ChevronTexaco Seen Selling Unocal Myanmar Assets [scroll down]
Date:
8 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
The story you haven't heard about... The Activists' Lawsuits
Date:
4 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
Common Questions and Answers for ERI [EarthRights International, regarding settlement with Unocal regarding Burma]
Date:
2 Apr 2005
Content Type:
Article
U.S.: Rights Advocates Hail 'Landmark' Settlement With American Corporation
Date:
24 Mar 2005
Content Type:
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Unocal settlement with Myanmar villagers finalised
Date:
22 Mar 2005
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Article
The Arm of the Law gets Longer
Date:
14 Mar 2005
Content Type:
Article
Las multinacionales y los derechos humanos
Date:
7 Mar 2005
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Discussing corporate injustice
Date:
31 Jan 2005
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The limits of human rights legislation [USA]
Date:
19 Jan 2005
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Gas Deal Wins Kudos, But Activists Warn of Rights Abuses [Burma]
Date:
18 Jan 2005
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Unocal Announces It Will Settle A Human Rights Suit: What Is the Real Story Behind Its Decision?
Date:
10 Jan 2005
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Paying For It - Doing business with regimes may cost American companies cash as well as goodwill
Date:
18 Dec 2004
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Foreign crimes come home to the US
Date:
15 Dec 2004
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Unocal to Settle Lawsuits Over Myanmar Abuse
Date:
13 Dec 2004
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Unocal settles Burma human rights cases
Date:
13 Dec 2004
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Unocal strikes deal with Myanmar villagers over alleged use of slave labour
Date:
13 Dec 2004
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Settlement in works over human rights case involving Unocal
Date:
13 Dec 2004
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Settlement reached in human rights lawsuit [Burma/USA]
Date:
13 Dec 2004
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[PDF] executive summary: "Business and International Crimes: Assessing the Liability of Business Entities for Grave Violations of International Law"
Date:
30 Nov 2004
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Article
[PDF] The Changing Landscape of Liability - A Director’s Guide to Trends in Corporate Environmental, Social and Economic Liability
Date:
30 Nov 2004
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Human rights: Can multinationals be held accountable?
Date:
20 Nov 2004
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Article
Total en Birmanie: Affaire Classée
Date:
10 Nov 2004
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Article
[PDF] Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence [OGEL] - Special Feature on Corporate Social Responsibility
Date:
1 Oct 2004
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Article
[PDF] Oil and Human Rights
Date:
1 Oct 2004
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Article
Unocal decision impacts Shell, Coca-Cola, Exxon [part of ExxonMobil] and Gap
Date:
18 Sep 2004
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Article
Slavery Suit Will Go Forward [USA/Burma]
Date:
15 Sep 2004
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The questions over aiding and abetting
Date:
1 Aug 2004
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[PDF] REO Report 2nd Quarter 2004
Date:
1 Aug 2004
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U.S. Courts Tackle Foreign Abuses - Energy corporations question 'law of nations'
Date:
26 Jul 2004
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Human Rights and the Court [USA]
Date:
3 Jul 2004
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[PDF] full report: "In Our Court: ATCA, Sosa and the Triumph of Human Rights"
Date:
30 Jun 2004
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Human Rights Abuses Worldwide Are Held to Fall Under U.S. Courts
Date:
30 Jun 2004
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Supreme Court: Foreign Victims of Abuse May Sue in US
Date:
30 Jun 2004
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New limits on overseas companies' lawsuits [ATCA lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging human rights abuses by companies]
Date:
29 Jun 2004
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USA: Core Principles of Alien Tort Claims Act Upheld - Foreign Victims of Human Rights Abuses Preserve Access to US Courts
Date:
29 Jun 2004
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ATCA Lives!
Date:
29 Jun 2004
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States and Corporations: Legal Responsibilities to the People
Date:
31 May 2004
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Analysis: Is trying to kill the Alien Tort Claims Act digging for fool’s gold?
Date:
13 May 2004
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Article
Rights and wrongs
Date:
5 May 2004
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Article
Human Rights and the Oil and Gas Industry
An IPIECA [Intl. Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association] Status Report, May 2004
Date:
1 May 2004
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Article
Big Business Attacks ATCA in New York Times; ERI's Rebuttal
Date:
12 Apr 2004
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Recent ATCA Cases Against Corporate Defendants
Date:
8 Mar 2004
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Law and disorder, corporate style
Date:
1 Mar 2004
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Myanmar: Cheers, jeers over giant gas find
Date:
14 Feb 2004
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Courting Responsibility
Date:
10 Feb 2004
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La justice exonère Unocal, poursuivi pour violations des droits de l'homme
Date:
23 Jan 2004
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Judge: Unocal not liable for claims
Date:
23 Jan 2004
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L.A. judge to issue oral ruling on Unocal's liability in human rights case
Date:
22 Jan 2004
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Article
Out of Burma: Grassroots Activism Forces Multinationals to End Ties with the Burmese Dictatorship
Date:
1 Jan 2004
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Article
Judgment day - Will an obscure law bring down the global economy?
Date:
28 Dec 2003
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El grupo petrolero estadounidense Unocal, acusado de violar los derechos humanos
Date:
9 Dec 2003
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Human rights trial over Unocal project in Myanmar opens in L.A.
Date:
9 Dec 2003
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[PDF] Background: The Yadana Pipeline and Activist Lawsuits
Date:
2 Dec 2003
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Article
[PDF] Summaries of Presentations Made at the UNRISD Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: Towards a New Agenda? 17 November 2003 - 18 November 2003 Salle XVI, Palais des Nations, Geneva
Date:
1 Dec 2003
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Slave Labor? Unocal is being sued in the U.S. for ignoring abuses in Burma. It's the next globalization battle
Date:
24 Nov 2003
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Article
[PDF] Community redress and multinational enterprises
Date:
31 Oct 2003
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Un ancien dirigeant de Total Birmanie entendu par un juge français
Date:
2 Oct 2003
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California, New York financial chiefs pressure Unocal to pull operations from Myanmar
Date:
3 Sep 2003
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Multinationals and accountability
Date:
19 Aug 2003
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The Court of Last Resort
Date:
7 Aug 2003
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Unocal Penalized for Tardy Documents
Date:
7 Aug 2003
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U.S. Courts' role in foreign feuds comes under fire
Date:
3 Aug 2003
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[PDF] Emerging Threat: Human Rights Claims
Date:
1 Aug 2003
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Unocal on trial for Burma 'abuses'
Date:
1 Aug 2003
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Judge rejects Unocal attempt to avoid California law
Date:
31 Jul 2003
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Wrong on rights
Date:
18 Jul 2003
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Laws of Empire
Date:
7 Jul 2003
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Profits at Gunpoint
Date:
30 Jun 2003
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Rights Groups Overseas Fight U.S. Concerns in U.S. Courts
Date:
26 Jun 2003
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Plaintiffs' Representatives Confident after Unocal Hearing [in U.S. court]
Date:
17 Jun 2003
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Appeals court [in USA] reconsiders if Unocal can be sued for atrocities [in Burma]
Date:
17 Jun 2003
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Court Ponders if U.S. Firm [Unocal] Liable for Abuse Abroad
Date:
17 Jun 2003
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Court Is Villagers' Only Hope
Date:
9 Jun 2003
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Ashcroft Sides with Torturers: Unocal and the Crimes of Burma
Date:
7 Jun 2003
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U.S. Court To Review Unocal Myanmar Brutality Suit
Date:
6 Jun 2003
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A Needed Human Rights Law [USA]
Date:
2 Jun 2003
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White House Seeks to Curb Rights Cases From Abroad: U.S. Fears Effect On Diplomatic Ties
Date:
30 May 2003
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Article
U.S.: Ashcroft Attacks Human Rights Law - Justice Dept. Undermining Key Precedent
Date:
15 May 2003
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U.S. Justice Department’s amicus curae brief in case of Doe v. Unocal
Date:
8 May 2003
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Oil Companies being sued
Date:
4 Apr 2003
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Article
Legal case for doing the right thing
Date:
31 Mar 2003
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Article
Appellate court ruling means potential trial for Unocal over Myanmar project
Date:
29 Mar 2003
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Article
[PDF] Legal Issues in Corporate Citizenship
Date:
31 Jan 2003
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Recent court decision could further isolate Burma
Date:
26 Sep 2002
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Plaintiffs Win Ninth Circuit Victory over Unocal
Date:
18 Sep 2002
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Court Tells Unocal to Face Rights Charges
Date:
18 Sep 2002
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Unocal must face trial in Myanmar human rights suit
Date:
18 Sep 2002
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Judge Lets Unocal Ask State Dept. to Intervene in Myanmar Lawsuit
Date:
9 Aug 2002
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Unocal wants government to quash labour lawsuit
Date:
9 Aug 2002
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A Long Way to Find Justice: What Are Burmese Villagers Doing in a California Court?
Date:
14 Jul 2002
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Internationally Binding Legislation and Litigation for the Enforcement of Labour Rights
Date:
26 Jun 2002
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Corporate Human Rights [human rights lawsuits agains multinationals in U.S. courts]
Date:
26 Jun 2002
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‘The Party Is Over’
Date:
21 Jun 2002
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Bad business in Burma
Date:
16 Jun 2002
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U.S. firms face suits for overseas acts
Date:
15 Jun 2002
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Unocal to Face Suit on Human Rights
Date:
12 Jun 2002
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Unocal Faces Trial For Rights Abuses
Date:
12 Jun 2002
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Judge OKs Unocal Abuse Lawsuit
Date:
11 Jun 2002
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Unocal Will Stand Trial Over Myanmar Venture
Date:
11 Jun 2002
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Doe v. Unocal: Forced Labor and Corporate Liability [Burma]
Date:
1 Jan 2002
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Recent ILRF [International Labor Rights Fund] Cases to Enforce Human Rights Under the ATCA
Date:
1 Dec 2001
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Article
Litigation Update: A Summary of Recent Developments in U.S. Cases Brought Under the Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Protection Act
Date:
30 Nov 2001
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Unocal closer to trial over human rights violations
Date:
8 Sep 2001
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Burmese workers suing Unocal in Los Angeles will have their day in court
Date:
30 Aug 2001
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Claim Against Unocal Rejected
Date:
8 Sep 2000
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Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law
Date:
1 Jan 2000
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Article
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