accountability & remedies
All individuals, communities, governments, and corporations have the fundamental responsibility to protect and respect human rights, to avoid rights violations in the first instance and safeguard our...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the minutes of the Dec. 2013 “single-stakeholder” (business...
An excellent and comprehensive set of minutes is available from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Even though it was an exclusive meeting, the transparency provided by the...
View ArticleCracks In Chevron’s “Fight On The Ice” Strategy
Nearly a decade ago, Chevron Corporation issued a public statement warning the Ecuadorian communities who were plaintiffs in a massive environmental case against the company in Ecuador that they would...
View ArticleEndless Litigation Dept. (cont.)
As has been recently reported (Vice, Courthouse News) the arbitral tribunal hearing Chevron’s baseless “denial of justice” claim against the Republic of Ecuador (through which Chevron hopes to put...
View ArticleThe “Vengeance Phase” of Chevron’s RICO Strategy: Human Rights Supporters...
[ Also up on HuffPost ] With news that Chevron is aggressively pursuing a $32 million claim against human rights attorney and activist Steven Donziger, it appears we are entering perhaps the ugliest...
View ArticleRenowned Aboriginal Rights Lawyer Peter Grant Joining Case Against Chevron on...
TORONTO, Oct. 10 /CSRwire/ – Peter Grant, the renowned Canadian aboriginal rights lawyer who recently helped to win a major case before the country’s Supreme Court, is joining the legal team of...
View ArticleCanadian courts re-emerge from the Land of Make Believe – Just in time…
Great news today, except that the progress it represents is only the reversal of a terrible and unjust turn of events that never should have happened in the first place. Canadian courts have been...
View ArticleMaterially misleading?
An Argentine trial court yesterday declined to continue the recognition action on the Ecuadorian judgment, largely for the same reasons as the Canadian trial judge in 2013 (reasons that were later...
View ArticleIN CANADA, CHEVRON TRYING TO BLOCK ECUADORIANS FROM USING U.N. DECLARATION TO...
[ From TheFirstNationsCanada.com ] In a Canadian court, Chevron is trying to block submission of a legal brief over how the company’s attempt to evade paying a $9.5 billion environmental judgment in...
View ArticleSLAPPs Watch: Bolloré
Great show of support from civil society for the French human rights litigation org Sherpa and others. The self-explanatory paragraph: Since 2009, more than 20 defamation suits have been brought in...
View ArticleEcuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms Environmental Judgment Against Chevron
More on this to come (hopefully elaborated in other forums and venues) but here is the decision (in Spanish) and here are the basic parameters: This is the fourth Ecuadorian court to uphold the...
View ArticleFirst of hopefully many dismissals in abusive SLAPP lawsuit against DAPL...
The decision, by inimitable senior federal district judge Bill Wilson (a semi-retired judge from Arkansas sitting by designation in the District of North Dakota) dismisses all of Energy Transfer...
View ArticleSimon Taylor blog / Responding to SLAPPs (Part I)
Simon Taylor, Co-founder and Director of Global Witness and winner of the Skoll Award among others, has an unflinching blog on up on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on Chevron’s vicious...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Revisiting Chevron’s abandoned oil fields in Ecuador — and...
A new documentary largely successfully avoids the infinite distractions generated by Chevron’s colossal retaliatory litigation campaign and re-focuses back on what happened–and what is happening today–...
View ArticleThe “Vengeance Phase” of Chevron’s RICO Strategy: Human Rights Supporters...
[ Also up on HuffPost ] With news that Chevron is aggressively pursuing a $32 million claim against human rights attorney and activist Steven Donziger, it appears we are entering perhaps the ugliest...
View ArticleRenowned Aboriginal Rights Lawyer Peter Grant Joining Case Against Chevron on...
TORONTO, Oct. 10 /CSRwire/ – Peter Grant, the renowned Canadian aboriginal rights lawyer who recently helped to win a major case before the country’s Supreme Court, is joining the legal team of...
View ArticleCanadian courts re-emerge from the Land of Make Believe – Just in time…
Great news today, except that the progress it represents is only the reversal of a terrible and unjust turn of events that never should have happened in the first place. Canadian courts have been...
View ArticleMaterially misleading?
An Argentine trial court yesterday declined to continue the recognition action on the Ecuadorian judgment, largely for the same reasons as the Canadian trial judge in 2013 (reasons that were later...
View ArticleIN CANADA, CHEVRON TRYING TO BLOCK ECUADORIANS FROM USING U.N. DECLARATION TO...
[ From TheFirstNationsCanada.com ] In a Canadian court, Chevron is trying to block submission of a legal brief over how the company’s attempt to evade paying a $9.5 billion environmental judgment in...
View ArticleSLAPPs Watch: Bolloré
Great show of support from civil society for the French human rights litigation org Sherpa and others. The self-explanatory paragraph: Since 2009, more than 20 defamation suits have been brought in...
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