• Business and human rights

Business and human rights

EarthRights International is a non-profit group of activists, organisers, and lawyers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate and government accountability.

EarthRights International activities include:

• document human rights and environmental abuses in countries where few other organisations can safely operate
• organise the human rights and environmental activist communities around earth rights issues
• litigate in U.S. courts on behalf of people around the world whose earth rights have been violated by governments and transnational corporations
• teach people about their earth rights and remedies, especially people living under repressive regimes
• advocate for those who have been harmed, and fight for better earth rights protections at every level, from the local to the international

Its website offers access to:

• news and press releases
• information and documents on the various ERI projects
• full text publications
• relevant links