When Donald Trump boasts about being above the law, he is speaking to a broader, more dangerous trend. Among America’s corporate class, immunity from the law—both from civil lawsuits and criminal [...]
The World Bank Group was created to lift people out of poverty. But what happens when its investments harm the very people it was created to help? That question is at the heart of our clients’ [...]
International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clients’ case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation challenging the immunity of the International [...]
“How do these new Investment Rules protect Indigenous People in Myanmar? How can we be sure that investors will respect the principle of Free, Prior Informed Consent before they bring [...]
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard our argument that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private lending arm, [...]
Last week, we responded to the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) grandiose claims of “absolute immunity” from any and all harms caused by the projects it finances. Our brief, filed in Jam [...]
A new report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week finds that the World Bank, and its private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), are failing to live up to their [...]
Thilawa residents were sent to a relocation site that was not even finished. They were eventually moved into a site where conditions were still far below the living standards they had in their [...]
In early September, frustrated by a negotiation process seemingly going nowhere, members of the Shipibo indigenous community Canaan de Cachiyacu non-violently seized control of the oil wells and [...]
Last week, Accountability Counsel – a long-time ERI partner organization – announced the failure of talks between two Peruvian indigenous communities and Maple Gas, an oil company that used to be [...]
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