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Supporting Equatorial Guinea’s embattled rights defenders
Despite high rates of economic growth, most Equatoguineans continue to live in poverty.
UNESCO: ‘Dictator Prize’ Suspension Only a Temporary Fix
Prize honoring Equatorial Guinea leader should be cancelled
Human Rights and the Economic Crisis: A Transformative Moment?
The current economic crisis is fast becoming a human rights crisis.CESR urges world leaders meeting in New York this week to seize the opportunity to place human rights principles, not profit, at the heart of crisis responses, economic policy and global economic governance.
Wiwa v Shell settlement just one small step toward ending corporate impunity
Shell's pay-out in the Ogoni case has been rightly hailed as a victory, but leaves impunity for rights violations unresolved (June 2009).
World's largest environmental lawsuit in Ecuador against Chevron
Ecuador's citizens seek redress for oil company's economic and social rights violations.
Chevron wants $500,000 from Nigerian villagers who sought justice
Lawyers for the villagers sought to hold oil giant responsible for 1998 shooting and mistreatment of protesters (February 2009).