Corporate Accountability

All companies have a responsibility to respect human rights in their operations. Human rights abuse are particularly high in the extractive industry. This is not surprising, given the impact that such operations have on land and water resources.

Our Demand Dignity campaign aims to change laws and regulations to ensure that companies are accountable for the human rights impacts of their operations.

Key issues:

Make Shell come clean in the Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is one of the 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems in the world and home to some 31 million people. It is also the location of massive oil deposits, which have been exploited for decades by oil companies.

Our Environmental Defenders Network (EDeN) is taking a lead on campaigning for justice in the Niger Delta. Click here to see more and take action.

India: 25 years of injustice for Bhopal victims

Around half a million people were exposed to a deadly gas leak from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal 25 years ago. Between 7,000 and 10,000 people died in the immediate aftermath and a further 15,000 over the next 20 years.

For 25 years the Indian government has failed the people of Bhopal. Promises have been repeatedly broken and no adequate action has ever been taken to address the impacts of the deadly gas leak.

Click here to read more and take action.

India: Mined out of existence - indigenous communities at risk in Orissa

Plans to open a mine in the Niyamigri Hills, south-west Orissa, are threatening the lives and livelihoods of a remote and ancient community living there.

EDeN is also taking a lead on this issue, click here to learn more and take action.