As human rights defenders expose and oppose injustices perpetrated by powerful economic and political actors, they may take ...

As millions around the world ask, Why is the genocide not stopping?, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese responds: ...

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Snapshot Starting in 1998, multiple lawsuits were filed in US courts against chemical company DuPont in relation to PFOA used to produce Teflon. Local farmers, residents and company workers claimed to ...

Para la versión en español de este perfil de las demandas judiciales, haga clic acá. Snapshot In 2013, over 700 Chileans filed a claim against Boliden Mineral in Swedish court. Plaintiffs alleged they ...

“In your phone, in their air - A trace of graphite is in consumer tech. In these Chinese villages, it’s everywhere.”, 2 October 2016 … [V]irtually all… [lithium] batteries use graphite, and its cheap ...

A new report by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), commissioned by Nestlé, saw researchers visit 260 farms used by the company in Ivory Coast from September to December 2014. The researchers found 56 ...

The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday…The ...

The Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel claimed victory... after Adidas ended its sponsorship of Israel’s Football Association (IFA), though i24NEWS has learned that the ...

Kiobel v. Shell - Proceedings in the USA In 2002, Royal Dutch/Shell was sued in US federal court by Esther Kiobel, the wife of Dr. Barinem Kiobel- an Ogoni activist who was member of the Movement for ...

Nine migrant labourers working on the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died in 2019, the “supreme committee” organising the event has announced, bringing the number of deaths on World Cup ...

On KTK: Siemens is committed to its obligation to comply with applicable law and to its responsibility as a company to respect human rights in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on ...