Divest Invest Protect and Human Rights Advocacy
Divest Protect Invest OECD Filing and Submission 2020-2021
Divest Invest Protect worked with clinical law students over the course 2017-2020 to produce one of the first Indigenous-led Specific Instance filings at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concerning coporate financing of extractive projects filed at the OECD US National Contact Point (USNCP) in Jan. 2020.
U.S. Department of State, OECD Final Statement, Divest Invest Protect, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network and Credit Suisse, U.S. Department of State (September 2, 2021), https://www.state.gov/specific-instance-between-divest-invest-protect-indigenous-peoples-law-and-policy-program-womens-earth-and-climate-action-network-and-credit-suisse/
WECAN International, Indigenous Women File OECD Specific Instance Against Credit Suisse for Rights Violations Regarding Pipeline, Press Release ( Jan. 30, 2020), https://www.wecaninternational.org/PressReleases/Indigenous-Women-File-OECD-Specific-Instance-Against-Credit-Suisse-for-Rights-Violations-Regarding-Pipeline-Financing?fbclid=IwAR2XoatUxrw8f_LkLIdhKh8W5ruldUMp3PnK2mWojhnQBGnVZcDbE5gnICc
Vibeka Mair, Responsible Investor, Banks Under Scrutiny Over Human Rights Soft Law (Feb. 3, 2020), https://www.responsible-investor.com/articles/banks-under-scrutiny-over-human-rights-soft-law?fbclid=IwAR0bcUyDZBO28z7LFOlF3tq0U_k-mNmOwGeD_dzAdAHRbLvgc9iFaXrzZhU
OECD Watch, Indigenous Women and WECAN vs. Credit Suisse (Jan. 30, 2020), https://complaints.oecdwatch.org/cases/Case_565?fbclid=IwAR0Ad08-Fc42PFvYchfy89OR8I_HxZcggIJAV6sQKG41UmpOPpdKpVqMIjA
Business and Human Rights Resource Centere, USA: Indigenous women file OECD Specific Instance against Credit Suisse for rights violations regarding pipeline financing; Credit Suisse responds (Jan. 30, 2020), Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Available at: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/usa-indigenous-women-file-oecd-specific-instance-against-credit-suisse-for-rights-violations-regarding-pipeline-financing-credit-suisse-responds/
Business and Human Rights Resource Center, Credit Suisse Response to Indigenous Women’s Filing (May 26, 2020) https://www.business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/Response%20from%20Credit%20Suisse%2026%20May%202020.pdf
From 2016-2019, Divest Invest Protect worked in partnership with the Indigneous Peoples Law and Policy Program (IPLP) to bring human rights resources to impacted peoples regarding human rights violations relating to the Dakota Access Pipeline, including organizing a delegation of Indigenous women to testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the criminalization of Indigenous human rights defenders in the Americas as it relates to NODAPL protests at Standing Rock North Dakota and human rights abuses occuring at the U.S/Mexico border.
Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, Report to the Inter-American Commission, Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders of Indigenous Peoples Resisting Extractive Industries in the United States, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona (June 24, 2019), http://www.sfbla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FINAL-IPLP-WPLC-Report-to-IACHR-6-24-19.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2STDis5dZl6S6vLpDch8tsv2JFl75UUfXKoL0D91fZa9smORLREP6oex4;
Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, Report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights on Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Indigenous Resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline: Criminalization of Dissent and Suppression of Protest, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona (March 16, 2018), https://law.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/Indigenous%20Resistance%20to%20the%20Dakota%20Access%20Pipeline%20Criminalization%20of%20Dissent%20and%20Suppression%20of%20Protest.pdf
