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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill Gotten Gains: complaint in Canada against twenty officials and their relatives from seven African countries

June 8, 2018 – Following the initiation of an investigation in Canada regarding the ill-gotten gains case by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),…
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Corporate Impunity

Submission from Sherpa and ECCHR on an indictment of Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity

Paris, May 15, 2018 –  Sherpa and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), initiators of a criminal complaint against the cement-manufacturer Lafarge…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Investigation resumes in the case of concealment of Liberian blood timber v. DLH: an important step forward in the defense of Human Rights

29 March 2018 – On March 22, the Investigation Chamber of the Montpellier’s Court of Appeal overruled the decision made by the examining magistrate in…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill-gotten gains: request for an investigation in Canada.

Paris, 1st March 2018 – Ill-gotten gains: Sherpa and the Canadian Coalition against Ill-Gotten Gains collectively request an investigation about ill-gotten gains and money…
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Corporate Impunity

Vinci : Sherpa will file a complaint with a claim for criminal indemnification following the closing of the case by the public prosecutor

Paris, February 6, 2018 – On March 23, 2015, Sherpa filed a complaint for forced labor and servitude on construction sites in Qatar, notably for…
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Civic Space

Sherpa, React, Mediapart, Le Point & l’Obs facing a defamation suit filed by one of Bolloré’s company, Socfin

Today 25th of January, Sherpa’s trial for defamation will begin at 1:30 pm. The Luxembourg-based company Socfin is suing Sherpa for having published a press…
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Corporate Influence

Samsung target of a lawsuit that would expose human rights violations

Sherpa and ActionAid France – Peuples solidaires new lawsuit would reveal violations of workers’ fundamental rights in the smartphone leader’s factories, while consumers have…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Organisations Ask Prime Minister Trudeau To Take Action on Corruption

(Paris/Ottawa, October 30, 2017) French anti-corruption organisation Sherpa and Canadian mining watchdog MiningWatch Canada today released a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, raising…
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Corporate Impunity

Involvement of the BNP Paribas in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda : Opening of the legal inquiry and nomination of an investigation judge

Paris, 26th of September 2017 – Following the complaint Sherpa, the Collectif des parties civiles pour le Rwanda (CPRC or coalition of civil parties…
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Corporate Impunity

Petition on BNP Paribas and the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi : We have Already Obtained Almost 150 000 signatures!

Paris, 6 July 2017 On 29 June 2017, while Sherpa, the SCRC and Ibuka France brought a suit against BNP Paribas for complicity in…
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Civic Space

SLAPPs brought by VINCI against Sherpa: A New Victory

Paris, 4 July 2017 On 28 June 2017, the Paris Cour of Appeal rejected VINCI’s suit alleging that Sherpa had violated its presumption of…
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Corporate Impunity

Rwandan Genocide: Sherpa, the CPCR and Ibuka France launched a complaint against BNP Paribas on the basis of complicity in a genocide, in crimes against humanity and in war crimes.

  Paris, 29 June 2017 – The associations Sherpa, the Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda (CPCR) and Ibuka France launched a complaint…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill-Gotten Gains: The Trial of Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Finally Starts

After ten years of proceedings, the first trial in the « Ill-Gotten Gains » case will start on Monday, 19 June, at 1:30 pm. From that…
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Corporate Impunity

Important step in the « Lafarge in Syria » case: Nomination of three investigative judges

Sherpa and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) welcome the nomination of three investigative judges by the Paris High Court (Tribunal…
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Corporate Impunity

Public Response by Sherpa to the National Action Plan for the Implementation of UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Paris, 9 May 2017 Sherpa welcomes the publication, on April 26th 2017, of a National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of the UN…
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