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FOI request reveals UK government backed Shell and Rio Tinto in human rights court cases after companies lobbied for support

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Documents released to CORE reveal how the oil giant Shell and mining multinational Rio Tinto successfully lobbied for UK government backing against human rights court cases in the U.S., at the same time as the UK was preparing its Business and Human Rights Action Plan.

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