http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15463 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15463 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15404 <div class="text blurb">In an effort to keep business ties with Turkey, five military contractors and one energy company (Chevron) lobby against a U.S. bill that would label Turkey's slaugther of a million Aremnians during WWI genocide. </div> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15404 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15385 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15385 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15383 <div class="text blurb">Royal Dutch Shell agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta, a striking sum given it has denied any wrongdoing. Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell’s most prominent critic at the time in Nigeria, was hanged in 1995 by that country’s military regime after protesting Shell's environmental practices in the oil-rich delta, especially in his native Ogoni region.</div> Mon, 08 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15383 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15393 <div class="text blurb">Multinational corporations suspected of abusing human rights should face the full force of international law through trial by a new global court, according to the United Nations’ authority on human rights and counter-terrorism.</div> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15393 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15353 <div class="text blurb">A new novel, "Eclipse," by Richard North Patterson, is based on the case of the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, executed in November 1995 by the government of General Sani Abacha. The circumstances, along with related incidents of brutal attacks, are getting another hearing. This month the Wiwa family’s lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell over its role in those events goes to trial in federal court in Manhattan.</div> Mon, 04 May 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15353 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15373 <div class="text blurb">Multinationals accused of human rights abuses can no longer feel safe now that the oil giant is facing allegations of complicity in the execution of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.</div> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15373 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15374 <div class="text blurb">Family of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, hanged by his country's rulers in 1995, take oil giant to court in New York.</div> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15374 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15297 <div class="text blurb">The McArthur River winds through Australia’s remote Northern Territory, home to four main Aboriginal linguistic groups: the Gurdanji, Yanyuwa, Garawa and Mara. Earlier this month Australian Minister for Environment Peter Garrett announced conditional approval for a bid by Swiss mining giant Xstrata to expand its zinc mining operations in the sacred McArthur River floodplain.</div> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15297 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14759 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14759