FIDH UPDATES CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY TOOL: Second Edition Released of A Guide for Victims and NGOs on Recourse Mechanisms

FIDH releases an updated version of its advocacy tool detailing how to seek justice and obtain reparation for human rights abuses involving multinational corporations in developing countries.

The guide explores the different judicial and non-judicial procedures available, such as mechanisms within intergovernmental, judicial, mediation and financial institutions, as well as voluntary commitments taken by companies. FIDH hopes use of this guide encourages advocates to share and exchange strategies on the outcomes of using these mechanisms, and assists to ensure victims of human rights violations can obtain justice.

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  • Children protest child labor in India. Worldwide, an estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labor. <span>© 2004 Suad Elías Atala</span>
  • A nickel factory in Norilsk, Russia has been emitting fine particles of heavy metals for fifty years, making the city among the ten most polluted in the world.<span>© 2007 James Hill</span>
  • This older woman in the Philippines washes clothes with no other water supply besides this river contaminated from upstream mining.<span>© 2008 Allan Cedillo Lissner</span>
  • In Tanzania, corruption marred each stage of the development of a gold mine which displaced 900 residents.<span> © 2008 Allan Cedillo Lissner</span>
  • A boy searches through trash in a harsh environment for plastic and metal to sell on the Filipino open market. <span>© 2008 <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdiboy/'>Tham Joo Kit /Mio Cade Photography</a></span>
  • A family working the tea fields in central Kenya. <span>© 2008 Dave Blume</span>
  • This disabled widow with two daughters, who lost her leg in a landmine accident, lives in a squatter village on the edge of a public lake in Cambodia, struggling to build self-reliance by maintaining a small farm. <span>© 2007 Cambodia Trust</span>
  • In the drylands of Western Shoshone indigenous territory, gold mining companies pump thousands of gallons per minute of scarce, subterranean water into evaporation pits. <span> © 2010 ESCR-Net </span>

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