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28 Oct 2008

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

[PDF] Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches world’s first online portal profiling human rights lawsuits against companies

Today the non-profit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches a free online portal – the first to bring together and demystify lawsuits from across the world alleging human rights abuses by companies. The portal summarises in non-legal language over 35 cases and the positions of each side, with more cases to be added soon. It also presents special commentaries by experts...Companies in profiled lawsuits include: AngloGold Ashanti, Barclays, BHP Billiton, Biwater, Blackwater, BP, Cambior, Cape PLC, Chevron/Texaco, Chiquita, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Dow/Union Carbide, Drummond, DynCorp, ExxonMobil, Firestone, Ford, Freeport-McMoRan, IBM, Mitsubishi, Nike, Occidental, Rio Tinto, Severstal, Shell, Standard Chartered, Talisman, Trafigura, Total, UBS, Wal-Mart, Yahoo!

Fait partie des chronologies suivantes

Biwater-Tanzania arbitration

Rio Tinto lawsuit (re Papua New Guinea)

Coca-Cola lawsuit (re racial discrimination in USA)

BP lawsuit (re Alaska)

ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh)

Coca-Cola lawsuit (re Colombia)

Talisman lawsuit (re Sudan)

IBM lawsuit (Holocaust claim by Gypsies)

Fadeyeva v Russia (re Severstal smelter)

Blackwater USA lawsuit (re 16 Sep 2007 Baghdad incident)

AngloGold Ashanti silicosis lawsuit (So. Africa)

Yahoo! lawsuit (re China)

Firestone lawsuit (re Liberia)

Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador)