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Workers Saving their Factories and Saving their Jobs: Using an expropriation law to ensure economic rights are protected
When businesses close and jobs disappear, individuals, families and communities risk falling into poverty. In Argentina’s recent economic downturn, many businesses have closed or gone bankrupt.
Workers in Argentina have tried to prevent job losses by refusing to stop working when their employers’ businesses go bankrupt.
Filing a civil tort action against a multi-national organization for human rights abuses that occurred as a result of a business
A group of Burmese laborers who were forced to work on a pipeline project in Myanmar successfully filed suit against two co-venturers in the pipeline project, Unocal and Total. They claim that the two transnational corporations knew and profited from the fact that the military of Myanmar was using violence and intimidation to relocate villages, enslave farmers, commit rape and other tortu
Testing for discrimination
Adapting the method used by US organizations on housing discrimination, the Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities (NEKI) uses a method of testing to collect evidence when there is an allegation of discrimination in order to challenge it in court. The Hungarian court recognized testing as a valid technique for documenting discrimination for the first time in a case in 2000 where an individual was denied service in a public accommodation on the ground of the customer’s ethnic origin.
Developing pro bono services in the professional legal community
Since 2001, Brazil’s Instituto Pro Bono has worked to persuade individual lawyers and law firms to provide free legal services for nonprofit organizations and people in need.
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