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Survival International v World Wide Fund for Nature: Using the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as a Means of Ensuring NGO Accountability

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Carolei D (2018) Survival International v World Wide Fund for Nature: Using the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as a Means of Ensuring NGO Accountability. Human Rights Law Review, 18 (2), pp. 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngy002

Abstract
In February 2016, Survival International (SI) filed a complaint to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), accusing the WWF of facilitating violent abuse against Baka ¡®Pygmies¡¯ forcing them to leave their homeland in Cameroon to make way for a national reserve. This complaint was unique, as it was the first one filed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) against another NGO using the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (OECD Guidelines),1 which had been originally designed...

Keywords
human rights; non-governmental organisations; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; Survival International Charitable Trust v World Wide Fund for Nature

Journal
Human Rights Law Review: Volume 18, Issue 2

StatusPublished
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Publication date30/06/2018
Publication date online09/05/2018
Date accepted by journal09/05/2018
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PublisherOxford University Press (OUP)
ISSN1461-7781
eISSN1744-1021

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Dr Domenico Carolei

Dr Domenico Carolei

Lecturer in Public Int. Law & Public Law, Law