In an era of fake news, doctored video and a government-sanctioned war on reality, documentaries are truly more important than ever. Filmmaker SImon Kilmurry writes that “Documentary film is [...]
Our friends over at Global Witness have again documented the deeply troubling rise in killings of environmental defenders around the world: More than 200 in 2017 alone, according to their [...]
A federal court this week dismissed a groundbreaking lawsuit by San Francisco and Oakland that would have forced some of the world’s largest oil companies to pay a portion of local taxpayers’ [...]
The San Francisco and Oakland climate cases were dismissed by federal judge William Alsup on Monday. Much has already been written – and much more will be – about the merits of this [...]
At the center of many human rights crises are the companies willing to profit off the suffering of others. ERI has been using the power of people and the power of law to hold U.S. companies [...]
If we question things only on the individual level, we will solve only short-term problems and might have to solve the same problem again and again. If we question the system, we might be working [...]
We have previously raised concerns about Rex Tillerson’s record on human rights, climate change, and corruption, including his direct advocacy against transparency rules for oil and mining [...]
Around the world, women have always been on the frontlines of resistance movements, especially when it comes to rights to land and self-determination. Despite their crucial role in organizing and [...]
By Variya Theppooviang* At the end of 2017, I joined a cohort of participants for the Mekong Legal Advocacy Institute (MLAI) training, a key part of EarthRights International’s legal program. [...]
The most recent episode of RadioLab’s “More Perfect,” entitled “Enemy of Mankind,” highlights the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). More Perfect, which focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court, is a great show. [...]
