Corporate Accountability

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Documenter et arbitrer les abus des entreprises envers les droits humains

Le groupe de travail Entreprises et Droits humains du Réseau-DESC travaille à cibler, publier et arbitrer des cas d'abus des droits humains impliquant des acteurs économiques.

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.

Plaidoyer pour une imputabilité internationale des entreprises

Le Groupe de travail Entreprises et Droits humains du Réseau-DESC travaille à renforcer l'imputabilité des entreprises qui opèrent dans différents secteurs et régions tout en défendant la nécessité de mettre en place des normes internationales qui articulent les responsabilités des entreprises envers les droits humains pouvant être ultimement applicable.

June 4, 2010: Joint Statement - Business and Human Rights at the Human Rights Council

Read our June 2010 joint statement on business and human rights at the Human Rights Council.

April 19, 2010: Rights Groups Report to UN on US Human Rights Failure to Hold Corporations Accountable for Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Torture, Murder, Indigenous Rights' Violations

Human Rights organizations submitted a report to the United Nations in Geneva today on the United States failure to hold corporations, including private government contractors, accountable for human rights abuses ranging from human trafficking to murder.

Call For Photos - The Business & Human Rights Documentation Project (B-HRD)

Do you have photos that show the effects businesses have on human rights? Consider donating them to the Business and Human Rights Documentation(B-HRD) Project!

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John Doe I, et al., v. UNOCAL Corp., et al., 395 F.3d 932 (9 Cir. 2002)

During Unocal's construction of an oil pipeline in Myanmar, it hired Myanmar's military for security while the pipeline was built. The villagers in the area where the pipeline was being constructed alleged the military forcefully evicted them, forced them to work on the project and raped, murdered and tortured them.

Brazil: Resolve tensions between farmers and agribusiness in Paraná

ESCR-Net requested that the Brazilian government take steps in response to the violence and tension that broke out at Sygenta Seeds farm in Paraná, Brazil. It was called on to secure the safety and protect the human rights of the members of MST and Via Campesina, the two groups involved, and to take measures to disband the private security company that caused the violence.