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16th November 2016, 15:13
Ecuadors fight against Chevrons impunity (Newsletter 14.11.16) - Ref 76788
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Ecuadors fight against Chevrons impunity
Alex Anfruns
For environmental and human damages caused over decades, Chevron was sentenced by the Court of Sucumbos in Ecuador to pay 9,5 billion dollars in compensation to the members of the Association of Victims of Texaco-Chevron. But Chevron did not just manage to evade justice. If that wasnt enough, it brought forward a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state with the help of an arbitration court under the auspices of the World Bank. Thats how Chevron received 112 million dollars in compensation from Ecuador in July 2016. Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer who has historically fought for the Amazon peoples against Chevron, warns about the absence of mechanisms to bring transnational corporations to justice. He also supports the idea of a binding treaty, an initiative from a United Nations working group to stop corporate impunity. The heart of the matter is not about economic reparations. It is about the environmental damage, it is about the indigenous peoples.
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Ecuadors fight against Chevrons impunity
Alex Anfruns
For environmental and human damages caused over decades, Chevron was sentenced by the Court of Sucumbos in Ecuador to pay 9,5 billion dollars in compensation to the members of the Association of Victims of Texaco-Chevron. But Chevron did not just manage to evade justice. If that wasnt enough, it brought forward a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state with the help of an arbitration court under the auspices of the World Bank. Thats how Chevron received 112 million dollars in compensation from Ecuador in July 2016. Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer who has historically fought for the Amazon peoples against Chevron, warns about the absence of mechanisms to bring transnational corporations to justice. He also supports the idea of a binding treaty, an initiative from a United Nations working group to stop corporate impunity. The heart of the matter is not about economic reparations. It is about the environmental damage, it is about the indigenous peoples.
Read the article (http://www.investigaction.net/en/ecuadors-fight-against-chevrons-impunity/)
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