A research note from Transparency International in response to the query: Earlier this year, the UK Government introduced the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. How do the following provisions compare to other G7 countries, Russia, and China: a) conditions for limiting protests, b) definition of and sentencing for “public nuisance”, c) criminalising damage to […]
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“Like a War on the Environment” —Texaco’s 30 Years in Ecuador
Decades after winning their case against Chevron, Ecuadorian plaintiffs are still suffering from poisoned water and soil.
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Agenda for 2019 Public Hearing on Queensland anti-protest law
Agenda for Queensland Parliament Legal Affairs and Public Safety Committee public hearing on the 2019 Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill.
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2019 Human Rights Commission Comment on Queensland anti-protest bill
Human Rights Commission response to the proposed Queensland Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. They note that there is “a real risk that the provisions may be unconstitutional as an impermissible burden on the implied freedom of political communication.”
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Queensland Resources Council submission on law restricting protest
In 2010, Indian conglomerate Adani purchased tenements over a giant and untapped coal basin in the west of
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Parliamentary Committee Report “Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019”
A summary of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee’s examination of the Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. The committee’s task was to consider the policy to be achieved by the legislation and the application of fundamental legislative principles – that is, to consider whether the Bill has sufficient regard to the […]
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2019 Explanatory Note for Queensland protest criminalization bill
The Queensland government’s proposal for Australia’s first anti-protest law, often referred to as Queensland’s “Dangerous Devices” law.
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2013 MacDonald Laurier Institute whitepaper “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People”
In 2012, four First Nations women
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2010 Craig Robertson emails about ad budget and messaging
Emails between Chevron staff and their ad agency about an ad campaign attacking various members of the Lago Agrio litigation team.
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Fine & Associates Borja Investigation Report Summary
Report on contents of approximately six hours of recorded conversations and 25 pages of printouts of on-line chats between Diego Borja, a former Chevron contractor who conducted the secret videotaping of a judge overseeing the environmental lawsuit in Lago Agrio (Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco), and a 32-year-old Ecuadoran, Santiago Escobar.