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A Big Win for Human Rights
Eviatar, Daphne | May 9, 2005 issue

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Looks at the impact of a lawsuit in which the Unocal oil company was charged with human rights abuses in Burma. View that lawsuits against companies accusing human rights abuses have become significant barriers to profitability; Discussion of action taken against multinational corporations that are complicit in political violence in protection of their business interests; Impact of the Unocal case in the establishment of legal liability in U.S. courts for a corporation's violations of human rights; Changes made to corporate conduct in overseas operations due to legal liability for corrupt practices.

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INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; HUMAN rights violations; CORPORATIONS -- Corrupt practices; UNOCAL Corp. -- Trials, litigation, etc.; SOCIAL responsibility of business; BUSINESS ethics; INTERNATIONAL law; BURMA
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