Calculating Human Rights. / Murray Hiebert and John McBeth.
by Hiebert, Murray; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 56Human Relations. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2002ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Exxon Mobil Corporation | Actions and defenses | Human rights -- Indonesia | International business enterprises | Social responsibility of business | Indonesia -- Armed Forces | United States -- Foreign relations -- IndonesiaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In a July 29 [2002] letter to a Washington judge, the State Department's legal adviser warned that a lawsuit against a U.S. oil giant for alleged complicity in human-rights abuses committed by Indonesian security forces could prompt Jakarta to discriminate against American firms when awarding contracts, and to stop cooperating in the global war on terrorism." (FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW) This article identifies how the U.S. government is warning of the political and economic fallout possible in relation to "a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian security forces protecting the company's natural gas fields in Aceh.".
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Originally Published: Calculating Human Rights, Aug. 15, 2002; pp. 18-19.
"In a July 29 [2002] letter to a Washington judge, the State Department's legal adviser warned that a lawsuit against a U.S. oil giant for alleged complicity in human-rights abuses committed by Indonesian security forces could prompt Jakarta to discriminate against American firms when awarding contracts, and to stop cooperating in the global war on terrorism." (FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW) This article identifies how the U.S. government is warning of the political and economic fallout possible in relation to "a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian security forces protecting the company's natural gas fields in Aceh.".
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