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Ashcroft Sides with Torturers: Unocal and the Crimes of Burma
The only serious factual issue in the case is the extent of Unocal's responsibility for the crimes.
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Commentary: The Legal Case Map, a key resource for firms' human rights & modern slavery risk management
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[PDF] The Third Pillar: Access to Judicial Remedies for Human Rights Violations by Transnational Business
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New Report Examines Evolution and Future of Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts
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Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking: Is Business Ready to Face Up to It?
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Alien Tort Backup Plan
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[PDF] Investor Statement for Human Rights and in Support of the U.S. Alien Tort Statute
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[PDF] Submission on Oil & Gas sector discussion paper
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Another Supreme Court boost for corporate unaccountability?
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Cuando el gran dinero choca con los derechos humanos [USA]
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When big business and human rights collide
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Corporate Accountability Now
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[PDF] Corporate Liability of Energy/Natural Resources Companies at National Law for Breach of International Human Rights Norms
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Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability [book]
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Better Safe than Sorry
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Trial trails: An American court blocks human-rights suits against businesses
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Shortening the Long Arm of the Law [USA]
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[PDF] Think globally, sue locally: Out-of-court tactics employed by plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their advocates in transnational tort cases
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ERI Submits Reports to the U.N. on U.S. Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Litigation
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[PDF] Stakeholder Submission on United States Obligations to Respect, Protect and Remedy Human Rights in the Context of Business Activities
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[PDF] Universal Periodic Review – United States of America Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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[PDF] Human Rights Due Diligence: Is It Too Risky? [scroll to p. 6]
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[audio] Globalising justice
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[PDF] Special event: Martyn Day & Paul Hoffman speaking on “Human rights lawsuits against companies – our experiences with victims, their families and businesspeople” (London, 3 Dec 2009)
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[PDF] Getting it Wrong: Flawed "Corporate Social Responsibility" and Misrepresentations Surrounding Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Pipeline in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)
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[PDF] Total Impact: The Human Rights, Environmental, and Financial Impacts of Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Project in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)
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Human rights abuses: How complicit are oil companies?
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Lawsuits target oil company operations overseas
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Old law exhumed by fighters for human rights [USA]
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Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses
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ERI Speaks to Oil Industry: New Investment in Military-Ruled Burma Poses Huge Risks to Companies
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[PDF] Obstacles to Justice and Redress for Victims of Corporate Human Rights Abuse
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[PDF] Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
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Open Wounds - Big Oil and Big Mining face a host of allegations that they helped commit human rights abuses
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Bad Business: Why Companies Shouldn't Trade with Abusive Regimes
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Watchdog group says Chevron complicit in Myanmar
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Report: Chevron financing, profiting from and liable for human rights abuses in Burma (Myanmar)
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Corporate Operations in Burma Fuel Human Rights Abuses, Say Shareowner Activists
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Analysis: Gas, oil get Myanmar off hook
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United States: Corporate Liability For Human Rights Abuses Goes On Trial
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Hey, We Just Fly the Planes [Alien Tort Claims Act & Valuation of Companies]
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United States: The Bottom Line - Corporate Social Responsibility Works, And Progressives Shouldn’t Abandon It
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Burma: Natural Gas Project Threatens Human Rights - South Korean, Indian Investments May Lead to Complicity in Abuses
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[PDF] Prepared Remarks at Clifford Chance
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11th Circuit Asked to Clarify Corporate Liability [USA]
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The UN Human Rights Norms for Corporations: The Private Implications of Public International Law
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Oil Companies Revamp Ethical Plans as Legal Risk Grows
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Global Lawyer: The Death of Alien Tort
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[PDF] full report: "The International Law Standard for Corporate Aiding and Abetting Liability"
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[PDF] full report: "Supply and Command - Natural Gas in Western Burma set to entrench military rule"
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[PDF] Win or Lose in Court
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Court Denies Unocal's Efforts to Shift Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses [in Burma] to its Insurers
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Total Denial
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[PDF] Order denying Unocal’s motion for partial summary judgment regarding Lexington’s defense of concealment
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Ominous Outlook for the UN Norms
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Mapping out the way ahead for business and human rights
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«Les Etats ne sont pas les seuls responsables des violations des droits humains»
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Understanding corporate complicity: Extending the notion beyond existing laws [speech by Irene Khan, Amnesty International, to Business & Human Rights Seminar, London, Dec 2005]
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[PDF] Corporate Action Network Magazine
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Defining Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
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[PDF] Rapport intérimaire du Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général chargé de la question des droits de l'homme et des sociétés transnationales et autres entreprises
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[PDF] Informe provisional del Representante Especial del Secretario General sobre la cuestión de los derechos humanos y las empresas transnacionales y otras empresas comerciales
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Interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
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Going Nowhere
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[PDF] Presentación Conjunta de ONG - Consulta Sobre Derechos Humanos y la Industria Extractiva
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[PDF] Présentation Conjointe D’Ong - Consultation sur les droits de l’homme et l’industrie extractive
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[PDF] Joint NGO Submission, Consultation on Human Rights and the Extractive Industry
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[DOC] Remarks by John G. Ruggie - Business & Human Rights Seminar - Old Billingsgate, London, December 8, 2005
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Senator Feinstein's Now-Withdrawn Statute Limiting Non-Citizens' Tort Claims: How Would It Have Affected Abu-Ghraib-Related Civil Suits and Other Similar Civil Actions?
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[PDF] L'Alien Tort Claims Act [ATCA, Etats-Unis]: une possibilité intéressante mais menacée
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The story you haven't heard about ... The Yadana Project in Myanmar
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Historic Advance for Universal Human Rights: Unocal to Compensate Burmese Villagers
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[DOC] Regulations for Corporations: A historical account of TNC regulation
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[PDF] The Unocal Settlement: Implications for the Developing Law on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
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Wrangle Prolongs Allocation of Unocal Payout
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Lack of Human Rights Policy Concerns Chevron Shareowners in Light of Unocal Merger
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Tentative Settlement of ATCA [Alien Tort Claims Act] Human Rights Suits Against Unocal
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Pirates of the Corporation - Holding American companies responsible for high crimes committed overseas
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ChevronTexaco critics band together
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A Big Win for Human Rights
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Belgium to reopen rights probe on Total in Myanmar
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Statement of EarthRights International Regarding ChevronTexaco’s Acquisition of Unocal
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ChevronTexaco Seen Selling Unocal Myanmar Assets [scroll down]
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The story you haven't heard about... The Activists' Lawsuits
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Common Questions and Answers for ERI [EarthRights International, regarding settlement with Unocal regarding Burma]
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U.S.: Rights Advocates Hail 'Landmark' Settlement With American Corporation
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Unocal settlement with Myanmar villagers finalised
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The Arm of the Law gets Longer
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Las multinacionales y los derechos humanos
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Discussing corporate injustice
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The limits of human rights legislation [USA]
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Gas Deal Wins Kudos, But Activists Warn of Rights Abuses [Burma]
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Unocal Announces It Will Settle A Human Rights Suit: What Is the Real Story Behind Its Decision?
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Paying For It - Doing business with regimes may cost American companies cash as well as goodwill
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Foreign crimes come home to the US
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Unocal to Settle Lawsuits Over Myanmar Abuse
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Unocal settles Burma human rights cases
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Unocal strikes deal with Myanmar villagers over alleged use of slave labour
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Settlement in works over human rights case involving Unocal
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Settlement reached in human rights lawsuit [Burma/USA]
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[PDF] executive summary: "Business and International Crimes: Assessing the Liability of Business Entities for Grave Violations of International Law"
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[PDF] The Changing Landscape of Liability - A Director’s Guide to Trends in Corporate Environmental, Social and Economic Liability
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Human rights: Can multinationals be held accountable?
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Total en Birmanie: Affaire Classée
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[PDF] Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence [OGEL] - Special Feature on Corporate Social Responsibility
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[PDF] Oil and Human Rights
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Unocal decision impacts Shell, Coca-Cola, Exxon [part of ExxonMobil] and Gap
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Slavery Suit Will Go Forward [USA/Burma]
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The questions over aiding and abetting
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[PDF] REO Report 2nd Quarter 2004
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U.S. Courts Tackle Foreign Abuses - Energy corporations question 'law of nations'
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Human Rights and the Court [USA]
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[PDF] full report: "In Our Court: ATCA, Sosa and the Triumph of Human Rights"
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Human Rights Abuses Worldwide Are Held to Fall Under U.S. Courts
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Supreme Court: Foreign Victims of Abuse May Sue in US
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New limits on overseas companies' lawsuits [ATCA lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging human rights abuses by companies]
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USA: Core Principles of Alien Tort Claims Act Upheld - Foreign Victims of Human Rights Abuses Preserve Access to US Courts
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ATCA Lives!
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States and Corporations: Legal Responsibilities to the People
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Analysis: Is trying to kill the Alien Tort Claims Act digging for fool’s gold?
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Rights and wrongs
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Human Rights and the Oil and Gas Industry An IPIECA [Intl. Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association] Status Report, May 2004
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Big Business Attacks ATCA in New York Times; ERI's Rebuttal
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Recent ATCA Cases Against Corporate Defendants
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Law and disorder, corporate style
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Myanmar: Cheers, jeers over giant gas find
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Courting Responsibility
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La justice exonère Unocal, poursuivi pour violations des droits de l'homme
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Judge: Unocal not liable for claims
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L.A. judge to issue oral ruling on Unocal's liability in human rights case
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Out of Burma: Grassroots Activism Forces Multinationals to End Ties with the Burmese Dictatorship
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Judgment day - Will an obscure law bring down the global economy?
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El grupo petrolero estadounidense Unocal, acusado de violar los derechos humanos
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Human rights trial over Unocal project in Myanmar opens in L.A.
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[PDF] Background: The Yadana Pipeline and Activist Lawsuits
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[PDF] Summaries of Presentations Made at the UNRISD Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: Towards a New Agenda? 17 November 2003 - 18 November 2003 Salle XVI, Palais des Nations, Geneva
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Slave Labor? Unocal is being sued in the U.S. for ignoring abuses in Burma. It's the next globalization battle
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[PDF] Community redress and multinational enterprises
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Un ancien dirigeant de Total Birmanie entendu par un juge français
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California, New York financial chiefs pressure Unocal to pull operations from Myanmar
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Multinationals and accountability
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The Court of Last Resort
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Unocal Penalized for Tardy Documents
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U.S. Courts' role in foreign feuds comes under fire
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[PDF] Emerging Threat: Human Rights Claims
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Unocal on trial for Burma 'abuses'
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Judge rejects Unocal attempt to avoid California law
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Wrong on rights
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Laws of Empire
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Profits at Gunpoint
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Rights Groups Overseas Fight U.S. Concerns in U.S. Courts
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Plaintiffs' Representatives Confident after Unocal Hearing [in U.S. court]
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Appeals court [in USA] reconsiders if Unocal can be sued for atrocities [in Burma]
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Court Ponders if U.S. Firm [Unocal] Liable for Abuse Abroad
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Court Is Villagers' Only Hope
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Ashcroft Sides with Torturers: Unocal and the Crimes of Burma
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U.S. Court To Review Unocal Myanmar Brutality Suit
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A Needed Human Rights Law [USA]
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White House Seeks to Curb Rights Cases From Abroad: U.S. Fears Effect On Diplomatic Ties
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U.S.: Ashcroft Attacks Human Rights Law - Justice Dept. Undermining Key Precedent
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U.S. Justice Department’s amicus curae brief in case of Doe v. Unocal
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Oil Companies being sued
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Legal case for doing the right thing
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Appellate court ruling means potential trial for Unocal over Myanmar project
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[PDF] Legal Issues in Corporate Citizenship
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Recent court decision could further isolate Burma
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Plaintiffs Win Ninth Circuit Victory over Unocal
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Court Tells Unocal to Face Rights Charges
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Unocal must face trial in Myanmar human rights suit
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Judge Lets Unocal Ask State Dept. to Intervene in Myanmar Lawsuit
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Unocal wants government to quash labour lawsuit
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A Long Way to Find Justice: What Are Burmese Villagers Doing in a California Court?
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Internationally Binding Legislation and Litigation for the Enforcement of Labour Rights
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Corporate Human Rights [human rights lawsuits agains multinationals in U.S. courts]
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‘The Party Is Over’
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Bad business in Burma
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U.S. firms face suits for overseas acts
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Unocal to Face Suit on Human Rights
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Unocal Faces Trial For Rights Abuses
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Judge OKs Unocal Abuse Lawsuit
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Unocal Will Stand Trial Over Myanmar Venture
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Doe v. Unocal: Forced Labor and Corporate Liability [Burma]
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Recent ILRF [International Labor Rights Fund] Cases to Enforce Human Rights Under the ATCA
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Litigation Update: A Summary of Recent Developments in U.S. Cases Brought Under the Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Protection Act
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Unocal closer to trial over human rights violations
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Burmese workers suing Unocal in Los Angeles will have their day in court
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Claim Against Unocal Rejected
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Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law
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