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Series Our legal actions tell companies they cannot abuse the rights of communities and remain unpunished
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Foromo Frédéric Loua, Les Mêmes Droits pour Tous (Guinea): "Companies’ awareness is increasing, and they are gradually understanding that they cannot expect to abuse the rights of communities and remain unpunished."
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Series Through strategic litigation, there is a chance to impact the law or create a change in policy
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Febi Yonesta, LBH Jakarta (Indonesia): "In most cases of human rights abuses caused by companies, the loss the victims face is huge and cannot be recovered without serious efforts from the government or the business entity...Often, the victim will not have the strength to face a long court process and the prolonged process will cause the business to pay more."
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Series Legal remedies do not only mean compensation - they mean prevention
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Sor.Rattanamanee Polkla, Community Resource Centre (Thailand): "When we talk about legal remedies, it does not only mean compensation, it also involves prevention – stopping an abuse before it happens."
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Series Confronting asymmetrical power: Empowering Brazil's rural communities to assert their legal rights & challenge corporate impunity
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Danilo Chammas, lawyer and activist for Justiça nos Trilhos (Justice on the Rails, Brazil): "Both the State and companies should comply with the law, judicial rulings and the obligations assumed in the agreements by which they themselves agreed to abide."
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Series Interview with Evgeniya Chirikova, Movement to Defend Khimki Forest (Russia)
"Our example of resistance to this devastating project inspired many initiative groups across all of Russia to defend their own environmental rights."
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