Nomination by: EarthRights International, USA

Total and Unocal, as the largest foreign investors in Myanmar/Burma, continue to support one of the world’s most repressive military regimes and refuse to assume accountability for the human rights atrocities occurred in the course of the construction of the Yadana natural gas pipeline. EarthRights International demands that both companies finally acknowledge their vicarious liability for the violations of human rights committed in the region.

UPDATE: On 13 December 2004, EarthRights and Unocal announced that a tentative settlement agreement had been reached in the Unocal case, which was brought to the US courts in 1997 under the Alien Tort Claims Act.