Powerful, wealthy global oil companies routinely partner with repressive or corrupt regimes, and then blame the local government or its local partners.
Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Is $15.5 million is enough to compensate for the hanging of nine men, the death of thousands more, and for the destruction of an ecosystem?
Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.
AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
NEW YORK — Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement Monday to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the execu...
VOA News | Carolyn Weaver | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green
The Shell human rights abuses case has been delayed in New York due to court order. No explanation has been given. For a video primer on the case, scr...
Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
Nigeria's Government is failing its people, but it is also important to ask why Shell continues to operate in an area where the price of its oil operations is so tragically high.
Han Shan | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has done everything in its power to stop a trial that would require them to answer to charges of human rights abuses.
Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.24.2009 | World
The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.
Han Shan | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
The effort to hold Shell accountable has been a true David & Goliath struggle, with impoverished Nigerian villagers and their scrappy human rights attorneys facing down a multinational oil giant.
Ka Hsaw Wa | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
Fourteen years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa leadna powerful non-violent movement against oil giant Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria. He was hanged seven months later after a sham trial condemned around the world.
Scott Gilmore | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Why do police negotiators generally refuse to pay ransom for hostages? To do so would actually encourage more kidnappings by providing an incentive to would-be kidnappers.
Carl Pope | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green