Big Win for Human Rights. Daphne Eviatar.
by Eviatar, Daphne; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 43Human Relations. Publisher: Nation, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Actions and defenses | Alien Tort Claims Act (1789) | Burma -- Armed Forces | Human rights | Human rights -- Burma | Human rights -- International aspects | International business enterprises | Social responsibility of business | Unocal CorpDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Early in April [2005], the California-based Unocal Corporation announced it was being bought out by its neighbor, the oil giant Chevron-Texaco. Splashed across the business pages, the news overshadowed another announcement, made much more quietly two weeks earlier: that Unocal had agreed to pay to settle a long-running lawsuit charging the oil company with assisting and encouraging the torture, murder and rape of Burmese villagers by government soldiers so that Unocal could build a gas pipeline." (NATION) This article discusses the case against Unocal and notes that "the timing of these two announcements is no coincidence, and it underscores just how seriously these legal cases are now being taken in corporate boardrooms. Once considered mere nuisances, lawsuits implicating corporations in international human rights abuses have become major obstacles to corporate profitability and prospects."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Big Win for Human Rights, May 9, 2005; pp. 20+.
"Early in April [2005], the California-based Unocal Corporation announced it was being bought out by its neighbor, the oil giant Chevron-Texaco. Splashed across the business pages, the news overshadowed another announcement, made much more quietly two weeks earlier: that Unocal had agreed to pay to settle a long-running lawsuit charging the oil company with assisting and encouraging the torture, murder and rape of Burmese villagers by government soldiers so that Unocal could build a gas pipeline." (NATION) This article discusses the case against Unocal and notes that "the timing of these two announcements is no coincidence, and it underscores just how seriously these legal cases are now being taken in corporate boardrooms. Once considered mere nuisances, lawsuits implicating corporations in international human rights abuses have become major obstacles to corporate profitability and prospects."
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