International Environmental Law and Policy

Environment and Human Rights
1999 Developments

12/10/99	Amnesty International and Sierra Club launches public awareness and lobbying campaign to protect environmentalists who have suffered human rights abuses
11/16/99	Lawsuit filed in New York against Union Carbide Corporation for violating international law and fundamental human rights of the victims and survivors of Bhopal
11/10/99	Russian Police Raid Homes of anti-nuclear activists
05/26/99	Family of Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa seeks damages against Shell oil company for human rights violations