Global Lawsuits
- Total lawsuit (re climate change, France)on December 2, 2020
In January 2020, several French NGOs and local authorities filed a lawsuit against oil company Total in France based on the duty of vigilance law, in an […]
- Total lawsuit (re failure to respect French duty of vigilance law in operations in Uganda)on December 2, 2020
In 2019, six civil society organisations filed a lawsuit in France against French oil company Total, for allegedly failing to comply with the duty of […]
- Formosa Plastics lawsuit (re marine pollution in Vietnam, filed in Taiwan)on December 2, 2020
Nearly 8,000 Vietnamese fisherfolk filed a lawsuit in Taiwan against Formosa Plastics Group over a marine disaster caused by toxic industrial waste discharged […]
- Imperial Pacific International lawsuit (re forced labour and human trafficking, Saipan, USA)on December 2, 2020
In 2019, seven Chinese construction workers filed a case at the Federal Court in Saipan to sue Imperial Pacific International and its contractors, MCC […]
- Vale-BSGR lawsuit (re complicity in violence against villagers in Guinea)on November 30, 2020
- TÜV SÜD lawsuit (re role in Brumadinho dam collapse)on November 26, 2020
On 15 October 2019, five Brazilians who lost close family members in the Brumadinho dam collapse, and two NGOs filed a law infringement complaint against […]
- Lundin Petroleum lawsuit (re complicity in war crimes, Sudan)on November 26, 2020
In October 2018, the Swedish Prosecution Authority received approval in principle from the Swedish Ministry of Justice to the proceed with a potential […]
- BHP & Vale lawsuit (re dam collapse in Brazil, filed in the UK)on November 24, 2020
In 2015, two mining dams operated by Samarco Mineração SA, a joint venture of Vale and BHP, collapsed in Brazil. This led to multiple lawsuits being filed in […]
- Chiquita lawsuits (re payments to paramilitary groups, filed in Colombia)on November 20, 2020
Several lawsuits have been filed as a result of a 2007 admission by Chiquita that it made payments from 1997 to 2004 to a paramilitary organization that the US […]
- NSO Group lawsuit (re hacking WhatsApp users)on November 20, 2020
In 2019, WhatsApp filed suit in California state court against NSO Group, an Israeli-based spyware firm, alleging illegal hacking. They request an injunction […]
- Class action lawsuit against Anglo American South Africa Ltd (re lead poisoning, Zambia)on November 20, 2020
A class action lawsuit filed against Anglo American South Africa Ltd in South Africa on behalf of communities living near the Kabwe lead mine in Zambia, […]
- Lawsuit against Apple, Google, Tesla, and others (re child labour, DRC)on November 16, 2020
In 2019, IRAdvocates, a US-based NGO filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, Google, Tesla, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Dell alleging the corporations […]