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Human rights lawsuits: mitigating a new threat

10/05/2009
By Jonathan Drimmer and Jennifer Millerwise Dyck
Over the past decade, lawsuits have proliferated in US courts alleging human rights abuses against multinational companies. The oil and gas industry has been a primary target.Last winter, Chevron stood trial in a high-profile case in San Francisco, accused of responsibility for deaths and torture carried out by the Nigerian military aboard a company oil platform. In June, a case against Shell in New York, involving accusations that Nigerian security forces tortured and murdered environmental protestors, settled on the courthouse steps. Two cases against Occidental Petroleum, one alleging that the company supported military attacks in Colombia and another that it supported murder and tortu...
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