NEW YORK, NY - Human rights advocate Steven Donziger this week asked a federal appellate court to reverse the latest attempt by Chevron to try to attack Ecuadorian villagers who are enforcing their landmark $12 billion pollution judgment by issuing a slew of subpoenas to U.S. supporters of those who held the oil giant accountable for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste onto their traditional lands.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Prominent New York corporate accountability advocate Steven Donziger this week won the right to open his bar disciplinary hearing to the public after international human rights groups expressed concern about what they call a “systematic denial of due process” to the former attorney who helped win a historic $12 billion pollution judgment against Chevron.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Lawyers from the New York bar grievance committee are seeking an extraordinary court order to block U.S. human rights attorney Steven Donziger from presenting explosive evidence of Chevron’s fraud and witness bribery that he says was relied on to illegally suspend his law license without a hearing after helping Ecuadorian Indigenous groups win a landmark $12 billion pollution judgment.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Roger Waters, the founder of Pink Floyd currently touring Latin America to sold-out stadiums, is arriving in Ecuador today to bear witness to Chevron’s “Amazon Chernobyl” disaster and to support Indigenous peoples and farmer communities who are fighting to force the oil giant to pay a landmark $12 billion liability to be used to clean up the world’s worst environmental disaster.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Having failed to block its $12 billion Ecuador pollution liability despite two decades of massive spending, Chevron now faces a slew of growing problems after Canada’s courts green-lighted a lawsuit by Indigenous groups and farmer communities to seize company assets to remediate the world’s worst oil-related environmental disaster.
Read MoreCALGARY, Canada - A major international conference exploring indigenous legal principles, the environment, and reparations for environmental disasters is set to launch in Banff, Canada on November 10 with several high-profile speakers and academics gathering from around the world. The public is invited to register and attend.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - In a stunning confession, a Boston-area financial manager and mother of four who raised funds for Amazon Indigenous peoples has admitted under oath that Chevron lawyers successfully intimidated her to sign an affidavit with false statements designed by the oil giant to undermine its $9.5 billion Ecuador pollution liability.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - With Canada’s Supreme Court backing Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples against Chevron, four of the world’s leading environmental groups have thrown their support behind leading U.S. human rights attorney Steven Donziger as the oil giant continues its unprecedented retaliation campaign targeting those who held it accountable for the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic oil waste in the Amazon.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Global Witness, one of the world’s leading human rights groups, has expressed “serious concern” to the New York judiciary over its use of Chevron’s false evidence in a secret process that denies prominent U.S. human rights attorney Steven Donziger the ability to challenge his interim suspension from the practice of law.
Read MoreQUITO, Ecuador - Rainforest communities in Ecuador who won a landmark $12 billion environmental judgment against Chevron earned a big victory this week when their country’s Attorney General announced he would seek nullification of an “illegal” arbitral order obtained by Chevron from a secret court that barred the affected Indigenous peoples from testifying or presenting evidence.
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