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Corporate Human Rights
Corn, David | July 15, 2002 issue

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The article discusses the efforts of some lawyers and labor advocates to sue in the U.S. transnational corporations that have abetted or benefited from human rights violations committed overseas. Lawsuits have been filed by the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund under the Alien Tort Claims Act that allowed foreigners to sue one another in U.S. courts, including one against oil and gas firm Unocal for allegedly using slave labor to build a pipeline in Burma. EarthRights International and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against Shell for alleged human rights abuses committed by the Nigerian military against the Ogoni people, who opposed a Shell pipeline.

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ACTIONS & defenses; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; HUMAN rights workers; COMMERCIAL crimes; SLAVE labor; UNOCAL Corp.; SHELL Oil Co.; UNITED States
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