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Corporate Accountability
“The corporate responsibility to respect human rights is a universally acknowledged norm. Companies themselves say they respect rights… Many major human rights-related confrontations begin as relatively minor grievances that companies ignore or dismiss.”
- John Ruggie, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative on Business & Human Rights
Law firms enlisted by EDLC use advocacy, negotiation, and litigation to hold corporations accountable for violations of environmental human rights in developing countries. In one recent EDLC case, dozens of opponents of a mining project in Peru were kidnapped and tortured, and successfully sued the parent company in England.
