By Caitlin Shay In August 2006, hundreds of thousands of people in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, discovered that noxious toxic waste had been dumped in 15 public locations around the city. Poisonous vapors forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prevented businesses from operating. Following the dumping, as many as 17 deaths were linked [Read More...]
Settlement but no Liability for Trafigura in Toxic Waste Dumping Case
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Labor Issues at the Kaesŏng Industrial Complex in North Korea
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by Ri Yoo Located just across the demilitarized zone in North Korea, the Kaesŏng Industrial Complex (KIC) is an industrial area where South Korean companies use North and South Korean labor to manufacture products. A joint project formed in 2004 between North and South Korea, the KIC is seen as landmark progress in North-South relations [Read More...]
Death of Italian G8 Protester Not a Violation of Right to Life
September 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
by Whitney Hayes, September 29, 2009 On August 25, 2009, the European Court of Human Rights issued a Chamber judgment in Giuliani and Gaggio v. Italy. This case addressed the State’s responsibility in the death of Carlo Giuliani, a protestor shot by an officer of the Italian carabinieri at the 2001 Group of Eight (G8) [Read More...]
The Lead-Contaminated Roma Camps of Mitrovica, Kosovo
September 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
by Annamaria Racota The Roma community’s decade-long exposure to lead contamination in northern Kosovo is one example of the European Community’s (EC) reluctance to expose and rectify the persistent human rights issues that Roma face. During the 1999 bombing of Kosovo, the Roma lived in Serb-majority areas in the Metrovica region of northern Kosovo. Due [Read More...]
