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Internal documents reveal oil company spent $383m over three years protecting staff and installations in Niger delta region. If it were a country Shell would have the third highest security budget in Africa. Photograph: Adrian Arbib/Corbis Shell is paying Nigerian … Continue reading →

Excerpts from Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor at the Robert F. Kennedy Compass Conference in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts [Kerry Kennedy and I] have worked for years together and it’s always been such … Continue reading →

By Marianne Comfort, Institute Justice Team It has been impressive to see how Mercy has coordinated a response on many fronts to the recent violence in Peru over the siting of a gold and copper mine in the Andes. The … Continue reading →

The recent move by the Obama Administration to suspend unilateral sanctions on Burma (Myanmar) led to a flurry of opinions. Many who oppose the move highlighted the specific request of Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for Western governments … Continue reading →

In brief: The Federal Government is considering whether Australia should join the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, an extractives sector initiative that addresses human rights risks associated with the security of companies’ operations. Partner Louise Jenkins (view CV) and Lawyers Catie … Continue reading →

Human rights Synergy puts new layers of analysis into its approach to human rights impact and risk assessment. Our interventions in this area include: Synergy integrates the international human rights framework into social risk analysis and mitigation; Synergy has developed … Continue reading →

  Regarding Michael Green and Daniel Twining’s July 16 op-ed, “Moving too fast on Burma”: The recent move by the Obama administration to suspend unilateral sanctions on Burma (also known as Myanmar) led to a flurry of opinions, including the … Continue reading →

NAME: Charis Kamphuis * BIO: * B.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (Saskatchewan), LL.M. (Osgoode), Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, and Coordinator of the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (“JCAP”). The empirical work that this Article is based on was … Continue reading →

Steve Coll, an award-winning journalist and current President of the New American Foundation, has written a fascinating new book on the oil industry entitled “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.” This book is full of superb narrative and useful information, … Continue reading →

Rio Tinto was one of the first companies to publish a human rights policy and to develop practical human rights guidance for employees. While we have done much good work in the area we are evolving our approach to continue … Continue reading →