Remains belonging to Pholachi “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, last seen on April 17, 2014, were found in an abandoned oil drum in a reservoir in Thailand last week. Billy was an ethnic Karen land rights [...]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently announced the formation of a new initiative–the Commission on Unalienable Rights. If you’re concerned about how an administration defined by [...]
As worldwide threats against human rights and environmental activists continue to grow, EarthRights International is supporting the global movement to fight back. This month we launched our [...]
Plan it Right: National Action Plan of Thailand on Business and Human Rights Shall be Inclusive to CSOs Voices
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Land grabbing, forced evictions, and human rights violations. Thai outbound investments in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have significantly increased in recent years. While some [...]
10 Documentaries about Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Environmental Justice to Check Out
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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 [...]