Unocal reached a confidential settlement in principle over a human rights lawsuit alleging it benefited from government repression while building a gas pipeline in Burma. The pipeline was built in an area where I used to do volunteer work, many years ago. The people I worked with are now refugees, driven out by government repression.
This is great news for the people there and for the principle that multinationals can't make use of repression by foreign governments in order to make money.
Details are completely missing (the settlement is not "certainly" worth millions as the website says), but still, it's great.
By the way, I used google news, and all the American reports on this story about an American company were 1 paragraph long, while the British website above was much more detailed. For what it's worth.
(Thanks Bob for letting us know!)
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