From this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions in developing countries and thats an enormous victory for for for that the rights of more globally. By degrees has been following proceedings from a boozer. This is not the only case in court either in the netherlands or in the u. K. Where hundreds of people have queued up to shell for contaminating the niger delta i spoke to an actor is a short while ago he said this is just the beginning and a lot of analysts also believe that it will open the floodgates into so many late editions against all producing Company Production companies that have been operating in nigeria some of these cases have been there for a very long time and they were unsuccessful similar communities up and successful to try call a shell in nigeria and courts for example in this particular case today in the netherlands 2 of the people who filed that case have died have already died but again activists are sa
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Welcome you to this virtual conversation. Europe holds and free the future of the the line was unintentional, but we did it. Todays event is sponsored by our global europe around under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take over managing this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki commission. Dannon joins the Wilson Center after holding a variety of patients in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responsible for nato, the osce and transatlantic Security Issues of the nordic, baltic, and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation with and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for the new europe was signed by 34 european and north american countries symbolizing an end to the 40year division of europe into two hostile camps. It form
Not follow the normal procedures. So this meeting, we dont know exactly what happened in the meeting with the statement afterwards from the 2 Senior Republicans from michigan. Certainly indicate that they heard nothing from donald trump that would change the result of the election in michigan and that they are going to press ahead to security guards in brazil are being investigated for homicide over the killing of a black man outside a supermarket. Demonstrators are calling for a boycott of the car for supermarket chain. Thats after a video was captured, showing the guards repeatedly hitting a 40 year old man in the face before his death. Theres very army says it has entered a district thats been under armenian control for almost 3 decades. Its one of 3 areas that armenia has to hand back as part of a cease fire idea. After weeks of fighting in upon a car that the United Nations is warning of a humanitarian crisis in northern ethiopia. It says more than 2000000. 00 children, are at ris