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Our activities
Look up which MEP-elect pledged!
29 April, by ALTER EU , ATTAC, European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Seattle to Brussels Network
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ECCJ Publications
Two new ECCJ publications!!
29 May 2008, by European Coalition for Corporate Justice
ECCJ believes that there are significant opportunities within European Law to improve accountability of European companies. After a year of hard work, we have compiled research and have conducted a series of consultations with company law specialists, CSR academics and civil society groups to evaluate the current obstacles to corporate justice. During the exercise we have also stopped to consider what changes to EU law could help prevent human rights abuses and environmental degradation within the sphere of responsibilty of European Multinational Enterprises.
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Press Releases
Call on the new Chief Executive of Shell to make a commitment to clean up Shell’s operation in the Niger Delta
30 June, by Amnesty International UK
Amnesty International today called the situation in the Niger Delta a “human rights tragedy,” saying that the people of the Niger Delta have seen their human rights abused by oil companies that their government cannot or will not hold to account.
“The Niger Delta provides a stark example of the lack of accountability of a government to its people, and of multinational companies’ almost total lack of accountability when it comes to the impact of their operations on human rights,” said Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty International’s Head of Business and Human Rights and co-author of a major new report, Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta, released today at a press conference in Abuja.
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Publications
Shell climate crimes exposed in new report
30 June, by Friends of the Earth EuropeFresh evidence of oil giant Shell’s colossal contribution to global climate change and its continued investment in carbon intensive fossil fuels has been revealed today in a new report. The report also reveals new internal documents that show Shell knew of the environmental dangers of gas flaring in Nigeria more than fifteen years ago, but chose not to stop flaring purely for financial reasons. As Shell’s new Chief Executive, Peter Voser, takes charge this week, Friends of the Earth, Oil Change International and PLATFORM have released new research showing that despite attempts by outgoing CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, to portray a green image, the company has opted for a way forward that is in stark contradiction with the need to reduce CO2 emissions.
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