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Speaker to be confirmed
Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-19:00
BP, Colombia, Oil & Ethics
- 👤 Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site
Abstract
Ten years ago, Gilberto Torres, a trade unionist working in the Colombian oil industry, was kidnapped by right-wing paramilitaries and brutally tortured. His lawyers have just lodged a claim for damages against BP in the British high court – a move which is regarded as a test case in corporate ethics.
SPEAKERS : Gilberto Torres, Colombian trade unionist; Francisco Ramirez Cuellar (trade unionist and lawyer with the Colombian Unified Trade Union Federation) Sue Willman, lawyer, partner at Deighton, Pierce and Glynn Richard Howitt (TBC); Juan Sebastian Smart, Oil Justice; Peter Drury, Amnesty International
co-hosted with the Centre of Latin American Studies
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