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Illicit Financial Flows

Large corruption schemes involving oil giant SBM Offshore: request for the opening of an investigation into French nationals’ involvement

Paris, 21 March 2022 – On Friday 18 March, Sherpa filed a complaint asking the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) to open an…

Investigation and report

Civic Space

Report: Shutting Out Criticism: How SLAPPs Threaten European Democracy

16 March 2022 – Ahead of the European Commission’s proposal of EU-wide measures to stop abusive litigation, a new report by the Coalition Against…

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Corporate Impunity

Victory over the transnational corporation Perenco: a step forward in the fight against opacity and for access to justice

Yesterday, the Court of cassation (French supreme court) ruled in favour of Sherpa and Friends of the Earth France in their legal dispute with…

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Civic Space

Law “separatism”: environmental and anti-corruption groups take legal action against the decree enacting the contract of republican commitment

On Tuesday, March 1, 25 associations filed a claim before the Conseil d’État against the decree implementing the “separatism” law and approving the republican…

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Corporate Impunity

Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: the proposal finally unveiled by the Commission must be improved

After many delays, the European Commission has just published its proposal for a directive imposing a corporate duty of vigilance in human rights and…

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Illicit Financial Flows

A judicial investigation is opened in Luxembourg to shed light on the ill-gotten gains of Lebanese leaders

A judicial investigation has been opened by the Luxembourg justice system regarding the ill-gotten gains in Lebanon following the complaint filed by the NGO…

Legal doctrine

Corporate Impunity

Sherpa’s contribution to “Human Rights Litigation against Multinationals in Practice”

In a collective book published by Oxford University Press, Sandra Cossart and Lucie Chatelain provide an analysis of different cases initiated in France against…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Lebanese ill-gotten gains : Sherpa alongside the Collectif des Victimes des Pratiques Frauduleuses et Criminelles au Liban, filed a complaint before the Public Prosecutor in Luxembourg.

Given the terrible crisis in Lebanon and the investigations opened in France and Switzerland to shed light on the ill-gotten gains of Lebanese leaders,…

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Corporate Impunity

Civil society calls on Thales to put an end to suspected indirect support to the Myanmar junta

Info Birmanie, Justice For Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Sherpa denounce exports of military technology carried out by Thales to an Indian intermediary…

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Corporate Impunity

Climate litigation against Total: the Versailles Court of Appeal confirms the jurisdiction of the judicial court

Paris, 18 November 2021 – In the climate litigation brought by 5 NGOs and 13 local authorities against Total, the Versailles Court of Appeal…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Rifaat Al Assad sentenced in France for his Ill-Gotten Gains allegedly fled to Syria

Paris, October 11, 2021 – The Syrian regime’s former dignitary recently sentenced in France to 4 years in prison for laundering Syrian public funds in…

Open Letter

Corporate Impunity

CSOs and labour unions call for the EU to confront systemic flaws of private social auditing and glaring accountability gaps.

In an open letter, 15 human rights organisations and labour unions, including Sherpa, are jointly urging EU policymakers, including Didier Reynders and Thierry Breton,…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Rifaat al Assad « Ill Gotten Gains » Case: The Paris court of appeal confirmed the condemnation decision rendered in first instance in 2020

Paris, 9 September 2021 – Today the Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment rendered by the Judicial Tribunal of Paris on June 17, 2020, sentencing Rifaat…

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Corporate Impunity

Historic victory before French Supreme Court on the indictment of multinational Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity

Today, France’s highest court, the Cour de cassation, decided that Lafarge’s indictment for complicity in crimes against humanity was wrongly canceled by the Paris…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Teodorin Obiang definitively convicted in the “ill-gotten gains” case: a decision that puts the final dot on the chapter of confiscation and opens the restitution one.

Paris, July 29, 2021 – The Court of Cassation has just confirmed the conviction of the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea in the ill-gotten assets…

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Large corruption schemes involving oil giant SBM Offshore: request for the opening of an investigation into French nationals’ involvement

Report: Shutting Out Criticism: How SLAPPs Threaten European Democracy

Victory over the transnational corporation Perenco: a step forward in the fight against opacity and for access to justice

Law “separatism”: environmental and anti-corruption groups take legal action against the decree enacting the contract of republican commitment

Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: the proposal finally unveiled by the Commission must be improved

A judicial investigation is opened in Luxembourg to shed light on the ill-gotten gains of Lebanese leaders

Sherpa’s contribution to “Human Rights Litigation against Multinationals in Practice”

Lebanese ill-gotten gains : Sherpa alongside the Collectif des Victimes des Pratiques Frauduleuses et Criminelles au Liban, filed a complaint before the Public Prosecutor in Luxembourg.

Civil society calls on Thales to put an end to suspected indirect support to the Myanmar junta

Climate litigation against Total: the Versailles Court of Appeal confirms the jurisdiction of the judicial court

Rifaat Al Assad sentenced in France for his Ill-Gotten Gains allegedly fled to Syria

CSOs and labour unions call for the EU to confront systemic flaws of private social auditing and glaring accountability gaps.

Rifaat al Assad « Ill Gotten Gains » Case: The Paris court of appeal confirmed the condemnation decision rendered in first instance in 2020

Historic victory before French Supreme Court on the indictment of multinational Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity

Teodorin Obiang definitively convicted in the “ill-gotten gains” case: a decision that puts the final dot on the chapter of confiscation and opens the restitution one.

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