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[Opinion] Journalist associations call for action against SLAPP proceedings

In recent months, judicial attacks on the freedom of expression of journalists, activists and NGOs have multiplied in France and represent a serious threat…

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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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[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…

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Illicit Financial Flows

[Opinion] “Zero tolerance for corruption – NGO Sherpa”

This article has been published on Times of Malta on October 16, 2020. On October 16, 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered while investigating…

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Illicit Financial Flows

[Interview] Ill-gotten gains, the Rifaat al-Assad Case

This interview has been published on the UNCAC Coalition website on July 4, 2020. Following a complaint filed by the French UNCAC Coalition member…

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Corporate Impunity

[Opinion] Making economic actors accountable by governing globalisation through law

This op-ed has been published in Mediapart’s blog on May the 5th, 2020 The accountability of economic actors has been thought of at Sherpa…

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Corporate Influence

[Opinion] Samsung’s indictment: Fighting transnational corporation’s human right’s violations through consumer law

Clara Gonzalez and Marie-Laure Guislain, litigation officers at Sherpa published a blog post ” Samsung’s indictment in France : Fighting transnational corporation’s human right’s violations…

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Illicit Financial Flows

[Opinion] The Balkany scandal lifts the veil on offshore mecanisms unknown to the public

The Balkany trial must not hide the role played by bank and financial intermediaries in the proliferation of illicit financial flows, antimoney laundering experts…

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Civic Space

Op-ed – We won’t be silenced by Bolloré gag suits!

Today, a court in Paris will begin hearing the defamation suit that the Luxembourg-based holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary Socapalm have brought…

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