The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations
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Description: Report on the human rights abuses that plagued the Enron Corporation's Dabhol power plant in India from 1992 to 1998, by Human Rights Watch.
(January 01, 1999)
The Enron Corporation:Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Summary and Recommendations (January 1999) "Many energy companies have invested in closed or repressive countries -- arguing that their investment would help develop the local economy and thereby improve the human rights situation. But in this case, Enron has invested in a democratic country -- and human rights abuses there have increased. Enron hasn't made things better for human rights; it has made things worse."
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| Page title: | The Enron Corporation:Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Summary and Recommendations (January 1999) |
| Keywords: | human rights watch, human rights violations, civil liberties, human rights abuses, Enron, Dabhol, Coroporation, India, USA, BJP, Shivsena, Minister, free expression, democracy, media censorship, Medha Patkar, silencing, dissent, torture, international law, africa, asia, complicity, responsibilities |
| Description: | In 1992, as part of the Indian government's effort to liberalize the economy, the government og Maharashtra state announced plans for the Enron Corporation to build the world's largest electricity generating plant at a cost of approximately $3 million. Leading Indian environmental activists and representaives of villagers' organizations in the affected area organized to oppose the project and, as a direct result of their opposition, have been subject to beatings and repeated short-term detention. HRW calls on all those involved in this project to take concrete measures to investigate the abuses and punish perpetrators; to take specific measures to ensure that human rights protections are integrated into project development; and to prevent further abuses. |
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