Reports and Analyses Archives - Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

Digital Safety

Journalists face a wide range of digital threats and it's increasingly important that they protect themselves and their sources by keeping up to date on the latest digital security news…

China: Human Rights and Chinese Business Activities in Latin America

In the last two decades, economic and financial ties between China and Latin America have deepened unprecedentedly. Chinese (state) policy banks have become the main creditors of several governments in…

Rights Defenders Under Threat in Ecuador: How Government Protection is Insufficient and Favors Industry Interests

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, in her report for the Human Rights Council of December 24th of 2020, noted that 1,323 human rights…

Constellations of responsibility: How Chevron keeps getting away with it

Among lush Amazonian flora in Oriente, the eastern region of Ecuador, pits of viscous, black oil dot the landscape. Iridescent streams infiltrate the rainforest. Aerial shots of unobstructed canopy cover…

Decade of Defiance

I could tell you that, around the world, three people are killed every week while trying to protect their land, their environment, from extractive forces. I could tell you that…

Frontline Defenders Global Analysis 2021

In 2021, the Human Rights Defenders Memorial (HRD Memorial) investigated and verified the killings of 358 human rights defenders (HRDs) in 35 countries.

Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations: A Practitioners Handbook