Khulumani's Reparations Case and the Future of Human Rights | Global Policy Fo... - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Aug 08
  

  Dripa B

  The Khulumani case is being taken on appeal in a process that will demand that the merits of its case are more carefully reviewed and discerned. The case is viewed in the international human rights movement as the strongest case yet in enforcing international norms in respect of the behaviours of foreign multinational companies.

  Khulumani AlienTortClaimsAct economics law HumanRights SouthAfrica US

  • on 29 June 2004, the United States  Supreme Court, in the case of Sosa v Alverez, held that foreigners  could use the Alien Tort Claims Act to institute lawsuits in the United  States for human rights abuses wherever they may be committed in the  world.
  • What are the merits of the Khulumani lawsuit? While other 'apartheid  lawsuits' sought 'open-ended' redress for all black South Africans born  in the country between 1948 and 1994, the Khulumani lawsuit, rather,  seeks limited individual, tailored relief for identified victims from  private actors - those foreign multinational corporations which  violated international law and were involved in colluding with the  apartheid state's security apparatuses. With the support of these  corporations, the apartheid government committed extra-judicial  killing, torture, sexual assault, prolonged arbitrary detention, and  multiple crimes against humanity.
  • Joseph  Stiglitz

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