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France: Ugandan communities sue oil giant TotalEnergies
"Total in Court, Ugandan Communities Sue the French Oil Giant in France", 27 June 2023
26 members of communities affected by the Tilenga and East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) projects in Uganda, human rights defender Maxwell Atuhura and five French and Ugandan CSOs – AFIEGO, Friends of the Earth France, NAPE/Friends of the Earth Uganda, Survie and TASHA Research Institute – have just taken TotalEnergies back to court on the basis of the duty of vigilance law. This time it is an action for damages, aiming at incurring Total’s civil liability and seeking compensation for the human rights violations that have been caused since 2017...