As human rights defenders expose and oppose injustices perpetrated by powerful economic and political actors, they may take ...

As millions around the world ask, Why is the genocide not stopping?, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese responds: ...

...Companies around the world have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into conservation projects in Brazil designed to ...

Snapshot Starting in 1998, multiple lawsuits were filed in US courts against chemical company DuPont in relation to PFOA used to produce Teflon. Local farmers, residents and company workers claimed to ...

In 2017, an investigation by the environmental campaigning group, Mighty Earth led to the release of “ Chocolate’s Dark Secret ” - a report which alleged that a large amount of the cocoa used in ...

The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday…The ...

Worrying reports highlight pitiful wages, child labour and sexual abuse for some Syrian refugees working without permits. There is a real risk that these abuses could occur in the Turkish clothing ...

“In your phone, in their air - A trace of graphite is in consumer tech. In these Chinese villages, it’s everywhere.”, 2 October 2016 … [V]irtually all… [lithium] batteries use graphite, and its cheap ...

Para la versión en español de este perfil de las demandas judiciales, haga clic acá. Snapshot In 2013, over 700 Chileans filed a claim against Boliden Mineral in Swedish court. Plaintiffs alleged they ...

"DRC: Crisis in mines requires sustainable solution" 25 July 2019 A deadly accident and the deployment of the army to two massive copper and cobalt mines in the south of the Democratic Republic of the ...

The Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel claimed victory... after Adidas ended its sponsorship of Israel’s Football Association (IFA), though i24NEWS has learned that the ...

Four women who used to work for Nike have filed a federal lawsuit against the company, alleging it violated state and US equal-pay laws and fostered a work environment that allowed sexual harassment.