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Focus on: Can the proposed European directive on environmental crime increase prosecutions and sanctions for multinationals?

In December 2021, the European Commission published a proposal to revise the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. While negotiations…
Legal doctrine
Illicit Financial Flows

Public Beneficial Ownership: Can the European Court of Human Rights save financial transparency?

Jean-Philippe Foegle, Advocacy and Litigation Officer at Sherpa comments for Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on the European Court of Justice’s decision (November…
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Corporate Impunity

[Opinion] Corporate complicity in crimes against humanity: the Lafarge Case

In October 2022, Lafarge pleaded guilty in the US to funding terrorism and accepted to pay 778 million dollars in fine and forfeiture. While…
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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Corporate Impunity

Creating a Public Authority to Enforce the Duty of Vigilance Law: A Step Backward?

Sherpa publishes an analysis and recommendations with respect to the potential creation of an authority in charge of enforcing the French Duty of Vigilance…

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