The European Project “Victims and Corporations” from the Università Cattolica di Milano, publishes new materials and offers training.

The Project, coordinated by the Centre “Federico Stella” from the Università Cattolica di Milano, specifically addressed at applying Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, has published, among other materials, the National Empirical Research Report. The

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Shell faces a new lawsuit before Dutch courts for alleged complicity in unlawful arrest, detention and executions in Nigeria

Together with three other wives of the Ogoni 9, executed in 1995 by the Nigerian military government following an unfair trial, Esther Kiobel has launched a new lawsuit against Shell in the Netherlands, the company’s home country, for its alleged complicity in these crimes.  The context in which these events take place is the violent

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The Spanish Observatory on Social Corporate Responsibility, with the participation of Indago, has published its Report on the IBEX 35 enterprises’ transparency regarding human and labour rights for the year 2015

The 2015 Analysis examines the quality of the information presented on human and labour rights by the enterprises in their annual reports, sustainability reports and public documents. It concludes that, despite the big words used to express their commitment with human rights, IBEX 35 enterprises fail to inform about the mechanisms adopted to avoid human

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