Choukroune, Leïla --- "Corporate liability for human rights violations. The Exxon Mobil case in Indonesia" [2013] ELECD 972; in Faure, Michael; Wibisana, Andri (eds), "Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 56

Book Title: Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm

Editor(s): Faure, Michael; Wibisana, Andri

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781002483

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Corporate liability for human rights violations. The Exxon Mobil case in Indonesia

Author(s): Choukroune, Leïla

Number of pages: 23

Abstract/Description:

On 11 June 2001, the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) brought a civil case in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of 11 surviving family members of victims of egregious human rights violations allegedly committed by members of the Indonesian military forces hired to perform ‘security services on behalf of Defendants Exxon Mobil Corporation, Exxon Mobil Oil Indonesia Inc, Mobil Corporation, and PT Arun LNG, Co’. The plaintiffs indeed held that they had been subjected to very serious violations of human rights, including genocide, murder, torture, crimes against humanity, sexual violence and kidnapping, in connection with the defendants’ operation of natural gas extraction and processing facilities in the Province of Aceh in Indonesia.