Weekly Update

Guardian (UK); Leigh Day; Amnesty Intl.; Financial Times; Shell

• agreement follows 3-year UK court battle after Shell originally offered £4,000 in total compensation  
• £35 million will be split between those affected by the spill who will each receive £2,200; £20 million will go to the wider community 
• case profile detailing key developments & timeline also available

Wall Street Journal; New York Times

• examples include crackdown on internet freedom in China, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey; refers to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube (part of Google)

• case studies on projects in Brazil, Colombia, India
• we invited principal companies & ECAs named in report to respond:
• Van Oord response provided
• Export Development Canada, Vale indicated they will respond - we will include their responses in next week's Update
• we will indicate next week whether Atradius, Reliance Energy, State Bank of India respond

• seeks views on obstacles & good practices in context of natural resource exploitation

Jonah Sachs, on Guardian Sustainable Business

• refers to Coca-Cola, Huffington Post, PepsiCo & others

Damiano de Felice & Andreas Graf, in Journal of Human Rights Practice

Daily Independent (Nigeria)

• we invited Chevron to respond - we will include its response in next week's Update 

• includes company's policy to manage identified human rights risks

New Vision (Uganda)

Deutsche Welle

• we invited Heckler & Koch to respond - response provided
• articles also available in German & Spanish

Colombia Reports

Repórter Brasil

• article includes comments by companies

• we invited Syngenta to respond - response provided challenging allegations

AFP, Myanmar Times

Sankei Shimbun （産経新聞）

• unofficial English summary of original Japanese article provided

Associated Press

Agencies; Al Jazeera

Wall Street Journal

Guardian (UK); mashable

• we invited Titan to respond - response provided

BGN News

• challenges & opportunities for business after human rights impact assessments (London, 4 Feb)
• course on business & human rights developments (Copenhagen, 23-24 Feb)
• final EJOLT Conference: "Building the Road to Environmental Justice" (Brussels, 3 Mar)
• responsible sourcing summit (West Hollywood, 3-4 Mar)
• capacity building workshops on business & human rights (Aarhus, 9-10 Mar)

• ActionAid UK (3 posts on tax avoidance project: Finance Adviser; Monitoring & Evaluation Adviser; Project Manager)
• BIICL (Research Fellow)
• Ethical Trading Initiative (Training Manager)

Verdad Abierta (Colombia)

• Busca recabar información en el contexto de la explotación de recursos naturales

France 24

Francetv info & AFP

Agence de Presse Sénégalaise

Journal de l'Environnement (France)

• Pour obtenir des avis sur les obstacles et les bonnes pratiques dans le contexte de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles

Comité exécutif de l'ITIE-Congo

Ressources Humaines Sans Frontières