12 February 2021• -Press release-en, Environment and Climate, Front page, Strengthening corporate accountability
Paris, 11 February 2021 – In the climate change litigation against Total, the tribunal ruled in favour of the 5 NGOs and 14 local...
26 January 2021• -Press release-en, Advocacy, Front page, Protecting the public debate, Research and Studies, Strengthening corporate accountability
Adopted in 2017 after a long advocacy, the French law on the duty of vigilance is a world first in the fight against the impunity of...
21 January 2021• -Press release-en, Access to justice, Advocacy, Front page, Strengthening corporate accountability
Judicial Court of Nanterre, January 21, 2021 Nanterre, January 21, 2021 – Hearing day in the case initiated against Bolloré by a...
11 December 2020• -Press release-en
Paris, December 11th, 2020 – In a letter addressed to the Principality of Monaco and the department of Justice, we remind the...
25 November 2020• -Press release-en
Paris, November 24th, 2020 – At the end of September, Sherpa’s General Assembly elected four additional members to...
29 October 2020• -Press release-en, Advocacy, Environment and Climate, Front page, Research and Studies
Paris, October 29, 2020 – In a study on vigilance in the supply chains of minerals used in the energy transition, Sherpa highlights...
5 October 2020• -Press release-en, Front page, Laundering
Paris, October 05, 2020 – On September 30, 2020, Sherpa and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation called on the National Financial...
21 September 2020• -Press release-en, Environment and Climate, Front page, Strategic litigation
Paris, 21 September 2020 – An international coalition of associations (Canopée, CPT, Envol Vert, Mighty Earth, Notre Affaire à...
18 September 2020• -Press release-en, Access to justice, Environment and Climate, Front page
Paris Court of Appeal’s ruling, September 17, 2020 Paris, September 17, 2020 – The Court of Appeal denied Sherpa and Friends of the...
15 September 2020• -Press release-en, Corruption and embezzlement, Laundering
Paris, September 11, 2020 – On September 11, 2020, the boss of the mining giant Rio Tinto, French Jean-Sébastien Jacques, resigned...
31 July 2020• -Press release-en, Corruption and embezzlement, Laundering
Paris, 31 July 2020 – Sherpa has asked the national financial prosecutor’s office to open an investigation into...
29 June 2020• -Press release-en
Paris, 29 June - On 27 March 2017, the French Law on the duty of vigilance was enacted. This law is unprecedented and has a clear ambition:...
17 June 2020• -Press release-en, Corruption and embezzlement, Front page, Laundering, Tax evasion
Paris, 17 June 2020 – The Paris court sentenced Rifaat Al-Assad, uncle of Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad, to 4 years in prison in...
10 June 2020• -Press release-en, Advocacy, Corruption and embezzlement, Front page
Paris, June 10, 2020 – Laura Rousseau, head of Sherpa’s “Illicit Financial Flows” programme, has been elected to...
8 June 2020• -Press release-en, Advocacy, Front page, Protecting the public debate
The problem: gag lawsuits against public interest defenders The EU must end gag lawsuits used to silence individuals and organisations that...
