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“Mining with meaning”: the content of vigilance plans is still insufficient according to a new study published by Sherpa

Paris, October 29, 2020 – In a study on vigilance in the supply chains of minerals used in the energy transition, Sherpa highlights the…

Press release

Illicit Financial Flows

Complaint in France against BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Natixis, CIC and Rivage Investment for money laundering and concealment

Paris, October 05, 2020 – On September 30, 2020, Sherpa and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation called on the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office to…

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Corporate Impunity

Indigenous organisations and NGO coalition warn top French supermarket Casino: do not sell beef from deforestation in Brazil and Colombia – or face French law

Paris, 21 September 2020 – An international coalition of associations (Canopée, CPT, Envol Vert, Mighty Earth, Notre Affaire à Tous, and Sherpa) and representative Indigenous…

Press release

Corporate Impunity

Continuing opacity: the court denies access to information on perenco’s oil activities

Paris, September 17, 2020 – The Court of Appeal denied Sherpa and Friends of the Earth’s request to authorize a bailiff to seize documents…

News

Illicit Financial Flows

Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques has resigned following the destruction of aboriginal heritage sites by Rio Tinto, a company already pointed out in France for its alleged corruption practices

Paris, September 11, 2020 – On September 11, 2020, the boss of the mining giant Rio Tinto, French Jean-Sébastien Jacques, resigned amid scandal of…

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Illicit Financial Flows

Sherpa calls for an investigation into the involvement of a former high-ranking French official in a suspicious operation in Guinea

Paris, 31 July 2020 – Sherpa has asked the national financial prosecutor’s office to open an investigation into corruption, influence peddling and money laundering to…

Investigation and report

Corporate Impunity

McDonald’s France, Yves Rocher, Nestlé France, France Télévisions, Primark France… 27% of companies would have failed to comply with the French Law on the Duty of Vigilance

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: to impose a duty of vigilance on large French companies and hold them into account before French courts for human rights violations and serious environmental violations resulting from the activities of their subsidiaries, suppliers and subcontractors in France and abroad

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Illicit Financial Flows

“Ill-gotten gains”: Rifaat Al Assad, uncle of the Syrian president, convicted in France for laundering to the detriment of the Syrian people

Paris, 17 June 2020 – The Paris court sentenced Rifaat Al-Assad, uncle of Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad, to 4 years in prison in particular…

Open Letter

Civic Space

Ending Gag Lawsuits in Europe Protecting Democracy and Fundamental Rights

The problem: gag lawsuits against public interest defenders The EU must end gag lawsuits used to silence individuals and organisations that hold those in…

Press release

Corporate Impunity

Report to the AMF about Total’s Financial informations & Climate Risks

Paris, 28 May 2020 – Notre Affaire à Tous and Sherpa have reported to the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) potential contradictions, inaccuracies and…

Press release

Corporate Impunity

VOLTALIA must put an end to its relationship with a company linked to the Myanmar military

Paris, May 26, 2020 – While the Myanmar military is once again accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United Nations, the…

Press release

Illicit Financial Flows

A missed opportunity : France’s return of Gulnara Karimova’s illegally acquired assets

Paris, May the 20th, 2020 – The NGO’s Transparency International France (TI-F), Sherpa and the Human Rights Association in Central Asia (AHRCA) are highly…

Press release

Corporate Impunity

Total’s new climate change ambitions: a variable-geometry “carbon neutrality”?

Paris, May 5, 2020 – Under the pressure of civil society and EU 2050 carbon neutrality commitments, Total is finally acknowledging its major climate…

Press release

Illicit Financial Flows

Harsher sentence in appeal for Teodoro Obiang Jr: “France is no longer a welcoming country for the proceeds of laundered and dirty money”

Paris, 10.02.2020 – The Paris Court of Appeal rendered its decision in the trial of Teodoro Obiang Jr, Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea. It confirmed the…

Press release

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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“Mining with meaning”: the content of vigilance plans is still insufficient according to a new study published by Sherpa

Complaint in France against BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Natixis, CIC and Rivage Investment for money laundering and concealment

Indigenous organisations and NGO coalition warn top French supermarket Casino: do not sell beef from deforestation in Brazil and Colombia – or face French law

Continuing opacity: the court denies access to information on perenco’s oil activities

Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques has resigned following the destruction of aboriginal heritage sites by Rio Tinto, a company already pointed out in France for its alleged corruption practices

Sherpa calls for an investigation into the involvement of a former high-ranking French official in a suspicious operation in Guinea

McDonald’s France, Yves Rocher, Nestlé France, France Télévisions, Primark France… 27% of companies would have failed to comply with the French Law on the Duty of Vigilance

“Ill-gotten gains”: Rifaat Al Assad, uncle of the Syrian president, convicted in France for laundering to the detriment of the Syrian people

Ending Gag Lawsuits in Europe Protecting Democracy and Fundamental Rights

Report to the AMF about Total’s Financial informations & Climate Risks

VOLTALIA must put an end to its relationship with a company linked to the Myanmar military

A missed opportunity : France’s return of Gulnara Karimova’s illegally acquired assets

Total’s new climate change ambitions: a variable-geometry “carbon neutrality”?

Harsher sentence in appeal for Teodoro Obiang Jr: “France is no longer a welcoming country for the proceeds of laundered and dirty money”

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

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