Case: Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC An Indian fishing community takes on the World Bank. Fishing communities and farmers are taking on the International Finance Corporation...
Case: Campos-Alvarez v. Newmont Mining Shooting Peaceful Mine Protesters in Peru. In Peru, police brutality against earth rights defenders is a systemic problem especially in...
Case: Cheay Areng Dam The Cheay Areng Dam will displace approximately 1500 indigenous Chorng people who have called the Areng Valley home for over...
Case: Dawei Special Economic Zone One of the largest planned industrial zones in Southeast Asia could harm tens of thousands of people. Dawei Special Economic...
Case: Doe v. Chiquita Brands International Banana Giant Chiquita Paid Terrorist Group for Security. After an inquiry by the U.S. Justice Department, Chiquita pled guilty to...
Case: Doe v. Unocal The First Case of its Kind: Holding a U.S. Company Responsible for Rape, Murder, and Forced Labor in Myanmar. When...
Case: Juana Doe et al. v. IFC Honduran Farmers Sue World Bank Group for Complicity in Human Rights Violations. This is one of the most severe cases...
Case: Kiobel v. Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP A continued search for justice: Shell’s alleged complicity in torture and executions is challenged in the Netherlands. When the Ogoni...
Case: Koh Kong Sugar Plantation A violent land grab on a Cambodian Sugar Plantation. In the mid-2000s in southwestern Cambodia, a violent land grab by...
Case: Maxima Acuña-Atalaya v. Newmont Mining A family’s struggle against one of the world’s biggest mining companies. The Chaupe family, including Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Máxima Acuña-Atalaya...
Case: Maynas v. Occidental Petroleum A Legacy of Harm: Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon take Occidental Petroleum to Court. In 2007, EarthRights International brought...
Case: Norperuano Pipeline Contamination A pipeline in the northernmost Peruvian Amazon has been spilling oil and contaminating communities for 50 years. The pipeline is...
Case: Thilawa: The 33 Farmers Farmers in Myanmar face criminal charges for defending their land rights. Thirty-three farmers from near the Thilawa Special Economic...
Case: Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell Getting Away with Murder: Shell’s Complicity with Crimes Against Humanity in Nigeria. When the Ogoni people of Nigeria organized in...
EarthRights Exposures: 2,400 Hectares A relocated resident from the Thilawa SEZ shares her experience.
EarthRights Exposures: Compensation Community members seek alternative to the standard financial compensation for relocating.