Human rights trial over Unocal project in Myanmar opens in L.A.

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Unocal lawsuit (re Myanmar)

Commentary: The Legal Case Map, a key resource for firms' human rights & modern slavery risk management

[PDF] The Third Pillar: Access to Judicial Remedies for Human Rights Violations by Transnational Business

New Report Examines Evolution and Future of Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts

Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking: Is Business Ready to Face Up to It?

Alien Tort Backup Plan

[PDF] Investor Statement for Human Rights and in Support of the U.S. Alien Tort Statute

[PDF] Submission on Oil & Gas sector discussion paper

Another Supreme Court boost for corporate unaccountability?

Cuando el gran dinero choca con los derechos humanos [USA]

When big business and human rights collide

Corporate Accountability Now

[PDF] Corporate Liability of Energy/Natural Resources Companies at National Law for Breach of International Human Rights Norms

Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability [book]

Better Safe than Sorry

Trial trails: An American court blocks human-rights suits against businesses

Shortening the Long Arm of the Law [USA]

[PDF] Think globally, sue locally: Out-of-court tactics employed by plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their advocates in transnational tort cases

ERI Submits Reports to the U.N. on U.S. Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Litigation

[PDF] Stakeholder Submission on United States Obligations to Respect, Protect and Remedy Human Rights in the Context of Business Activities

[PDF] Universal Periodic Review – United States of America Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

[PDF] Human Rights Due Diligence: Is It Too Risky? [scroll to p. 6]

[audio] Globalising justice

[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)

[PDF] Getting it Wrong: Flawed "Corporate Social Responsibility" and Misrepresentations Surrounding Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Pipeline in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)

[PDF] Total Impact: The Human Rights, Environmental, and Financial Impacts of Total and Chevron's Yadana Gas Project in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)

Human rights abuses: How complicit are oil companies?

Lawsuits target oil company operations overseas

Old law exhumed by fighters for human rights [USA]

Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses

ERI Speaks to Oil Industry: New Investment in Military-Ruled Burma Poses Huge Risks to Companies

[PDF] Obstacles to Justice and Redress for Victims of Corporate Human Rights Abuse

[PDF] Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses

Open Wounds - Big Oil and Big Mining face a host of allegations that they helped commit human rights abuses

Bad Business: Why Companies Shouldn't Trade with Abusive Regimes

Watchdog group says Chevron complicit in Myanmar

Report: Chevron financing, profiting from and liable for human rights abuses in Burma (Myanmar)

Corporate Operations in Burma Fuel Human Rights Abuses, Say Shareowner Activists

Analysis: Gas, oil get Myanmar off hook

United States: Corporate Liability For Human Rights Abuses Goes On Trial

Hey, We Just Fly the Planes [Alien Tort Claims Act & Valuation of Companies]

United States: The Bottom Line - Corporate Social Responsibility Works, And Progressives Shouldn’t Abandon It

Burma: Natural Gas Project Threatens Human Rights - South Korean, Indian Investments May Lead to Complicity in Abuses

[PDF] Prepared Remarks at Clifford Chance

11th Circuit Asked to Clarify Corporate Liability [USA]

The UN Human Rights Norms for Corporations: The Private Implications of Public International Law

Oil Companies Revamp Ethical Plans as Legal Risk Grows

Global Lawyer: The Death of Alien Tort

[PDF] full report: "The International Law Standard for Corporate Aiding and Abetting Liability"

[PDF] full report: "Supply and Command - Natural Gas in Western Burma set to entrench military rule"

[PDF] Win or Lose in Court

Court Denies Unocal's Efforts to Shift Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses [in Burma] to its Insurers

Total Denial

[PDF] Order denying Unocal’s motion for partial summary judgment regarding Lexington’s defense of concealment

Ominous Outlook for the UN Norms

Mapping out the way ahead for business and human rights

«Les Etats ne sont pas les seuls responsables des violations des droits humains»

Understanding corporate complicity: Extending the notion beyond existing laws [speech by Irene Khan, Amnesty International, to Business & Human Rights Seminar, London, Dec 2005]

[PDF] Corporate Action Network Magazine

Defining Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses

[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

[PDF] Informe provisional del Representante Especial del Secretario General sobre la cuestión de los derechos humanos y las empresas transnacionales y otras empresas comerciales

Interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises

Going Nowhere

[PDF] Presentación Conjunta de ONG - Consulta Sobre Derechos Humanos y la Industria Extractiva

[PDF] Présentation Conjointe D’Ong - Consultation sur les droits de l’homme et l’industrie extractive

[PDF] Joint NGO Submission, Consultation on Human Rights and the Extractive Industry

[DOC] Remarks by John G. Ruggie - Business & Human Rights Seminar - Old Billingsgate, London, December 8, 2005

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?

[PDF] L'Alien Tort Claims Act [ATCA, Etats-Unis]: une possibilité intéressante mais menacée

The story you haven't heard about ... The Yadana Project in Myanmar

Historic Advance for Universal Human Rights: Unocal to Compensate Burmese Villagers

[DOC] Regulations for Corporations: A historical account of TNC regulation

[PDF] The Unocal Settlement: Implications for the Developing Law on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses

Wrangle Prolongs Allocation of Unocal Payout

Lack of Human Rights Policy Concerns Chevron Shareowners in Light of Unocal Merger

Tentative Settlement of ATCA [Alien Tort Claims Act] Human Rights Suits Against Unocal

Pirates of the Corporation - Holding American companies responsible for high crimes committed overseas