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Weekly Update - 13 August 2014
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Letter to Thai Pineapple Industry Association signed by 101 organizations - asks it to urge its member, Natural Fruit, to drop cases filed against human rights defender Andy Hall
Signatories include Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Finnwatch, Human Rights Watch, Intl. Labor Rights Forum, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, State Enterprise Workers' Relations Confederation Thailand, Trades Union Congress UK
- Hall faces criminal & civil charges brought by Natural Fruit for his work on a report alleging serious rights abuses at the company’s factory
- full text of letter & press release provided
- also provided: non-official Thai translation of letter
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Niger: Call for protection of human rights defenders seeking greater transparency & fairness between govt. & extractive industries - several arrested in July
Association Nigérienne de Défense des Droits de L'Homme, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Global Witness, Observatory for Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and 20 other intl. & African NGOs
Nigerian Govt. & Shell's failure to implement UNEP recommendations continues to compromise Ogoniland communities' rights, says report
Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth Europe, Platform & CEHRD
- we invited Shell to respond; response provided
Côte d'Ivoire: Fair Labor Association assesses child labour in Nestlé's supply chain
- includes comments on report by Nestlé
So. Africa: Lonmin unveils share ownership scheme it says will empower local community
Business Day (So. Africa)
Working Paper says G8's initiative on food security in Africa, which involves corporations, "disregards fundamental principles of participation & accountability to human rights"
Brot für die Welt, MISEREOR & Global Policy Forum
Briefing says deployment of military to protect oil installations in Somaliland could escalate conflict between autonomous regions
IRIN
African govts. appeal to rich nations to help stem tax evasion & illicit outflows of capital by multinationals
Thomson Reuters Foundation
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