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June 14, 2010: New Report: Investment in Monocultures Violates Human Rights and Aggravates Climate Change

Latin Aamerican report on monocultures and violations of the human rights to adequate food and housing, to water, to land and to territory.
Maria Silvia Emanuelli (HIC-AL) Jennie Jonsén (FIAN Sweden and SAL) Sofía Monsalve Suárez (FIAN International)

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June 02, 2010: Chevron Has 5 Activists Arrested and Bars Entry to Global Victims of Its Practices at Annual Shareholders' Meeting

Video featuring Emem Okon, Director of ESCR-Net member organization Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center in the Niger Delta.

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Latin America: Private Wealth, Public Poverty

CIDSE (Cooperation Internationale pour le Developpement et la Solidarite), an international network of Catholic agencies of cooperation, and partner organizations realized a documentary on alternative strategies against the dominant model of natural resources extraction.

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March 27, 2010: 'Resource-cursed' Liberia Struggles in Firestone's Stronghold

Earlier this month Liberian environmental justice lawyer Alfred Lahai Brownell led a briefing on Bridgestone/Firestone's continued violations of child rights and environmental destruction.  As the leading lawyer on case the against Firestone, Brownell's research work with plantation workers influenced an Alien Tort Claims Act case filed against Firestone in the United States.

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March 08, 2010: Indigenous Achuar Face Off Against Occidental Petroleum in Amazon Pollution Case

On March 3, 2010, EarthRights International (ERI) argued to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that the landmark environmental and public health case brought by indigenous Peruvian Achuar and the U.S. NGO Amazon Watch against Los Angeles-based oil giant Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), Maynas Carijano v. Occidental Petroleum, should be litigated in Los Angeles, where Oxy is headquartered.

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May 14 and 15, 2009: Latin American Statement of NGOs and Organizations and Organizations Representing Affected Communities by Enterprises - 2009

 Statement of Non Governmental Organizations and Organizations Representing Affected Communities by Enterprises

 The Regional Consultation of the...

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Victory: Settlement Reached in Human Rights Cases Against Royal Dutch/Shell

On June 8th, 2009, the parties in Wiwa v. Shell agreed to settle human rights claims charging the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC or Shell Nigeria), and the former head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson, with complicity in the torture, killing, and other abuses of Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa as well as  other non-violent Nigerian activists  in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in the mid-1990s.

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Jan. 26, 2007: Latin American Civil Society Declaration to UN Special Representative on Human Rights and Business

Indigenous and affected communities, human rights NGOs, and unions, including members of the ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group, participated in The Regional Consultation of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Human Rights and Business in Bogotá, Colombia, 18-19 January 2007.  Twenty-five organizations jointly drafted and endorsed a common Declaration, containing clear recommendations.

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