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Article

10 Mar 2016

Author:
Marco Simons, Zamira Djabarova & Tamara Morgenthau, EarthRights International

New blog highlights EarthRights Intl.’s latest litigation tools to help communities affected by corporate human rights abuse

"Innovative Strategies for Supporting Communities' Demands for Accountability", 9 Mar 2016

EarthRights International shares the [two] latest strategies in their human rights litigation toolkit and the ways they can be used to help local communities hold corporations to account....Foreign Legal Assistance (FLA) actions enable local lawyers and advocates to more effectively challenge corporate abuses in their own legal system. The FLA is a U.S. statute that allows advocates from other countries to obtain documents and testimony to use in their cases....Another strategy that aims to put the power of accountability in the hands of local communities is by using non-judicial, operational-level grievance mechanisms (OGMs) – a concept that has been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council...