“The Salween is everything to us.” Communities in Eu-Wae-Tta Internally Displaced Person camp celebrate International Day of Action for Rivers.
Case: Bowoto v. Chevron Peaceful Protest, Military Response: Chevron’s Complicity in Murder and Torture in Nigeria.
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: Chadín 2 Hydroelectric Power Project Request for Constitutional Protection for Earth Rights Defenders Affected by Chadin 2 Hydroelectric Power Plant. The Chadín 2 Hydroelectric Plant...
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: Climate Change Litigation in Colorado Colorado communities sue fossil fuel companies to pay the costs of climate change adaptation.
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: Don Sahong Dam Mekong River dam will have dire impacts on the livelihoods, food security and environment of communities both upstream...
Case: Hatgyi Dam The Hatgyi dam is a proposed hydropower project on the Salween River in Myanmar, less than 50 kilometers from the...
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: Lower Sesan 2 Dam The Lower Sesan 2 (LS2) dam is a hydropower project that began operating in 2017 on the Sesan River in...
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...