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Corporate Impunity

First climate change litigation against Total in France: 14 local authorities and 5 NGOs take Total to court

Paris, January 28, 2020 – Fourteen local authorities [1], together with the NGOs Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, France Nature Environnement, Eco Maires and…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Procedures & Milestones : Moppani Copper Mines – Zambia

12 April 2011: Sherpa (France), the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) (Zambia), the Declaration of Berne (DdB) (Switzerland), l’Entraide missionnaire (Canada) and…

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Corporate Impunity

Procedures & Milestones : Michelin in India, the civil society is heard?

July 10, 2012: Submission of the NCP by Sherpa, Tamil Nadu Land Rights Federation – TNLRF (India), Thervoy Grama Makkal Munnerta Nala Sanga (India)…

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Corporate Impunity

MERCURY – French Guiana: A failure of the French government

The Facts… For the past several decades, French Guiana has been the victim of illegal gold mining practices. The use of environmentally unsafe processes,…

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Corporate Impunity

Michelin in India: the civil society is heard ?

The Facts… The Michelin enterprise’s work lies across 69 production sites in 18 countries, particularly in India. There, the enterprise is constructing its largest…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Uganda Dam project: The EIB in breach of its own operational policies

The Facts… The Bujagali Hydroelectric project involves the construction and operation of a dam and hydroelectric power plant on the Nile, 10 km from…

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First climate change litigation against Total in France: 14 local authorities and 5 NGOs take Total to court

Procedures & Milestones : Moppani Copper Mines – Zambia

Procedures & Milestones : Michelin in India, the civil society is heard?

MERCURY – French Guiana: A failure of the French government

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