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Anna Grear, Penelope Simons and Audrey Macklin, The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 607–611, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngv018
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Anyone concerned with questions of human and environmental justice in the twenty-first century will doubtlessly be aware of the immensely problematic accountability gap concerning the rights-violating and environmentally destructive activities of transnational corporations (TNCs), especially in the countries of the Global South. Certain cases stand out among a litany of instances as intensely sorrowful reminders of the inhumanity and corruption too often enacted in the pursuit of profit: the Bhopal disaster (or, as Upendra Baxi names it, the Bhopal ‘violation’); 1 the activities of Shell Oil in Ogoniland and the ‘judicial murder’ of Ken Saro Wiwa—a particularly well known and shocking case in which extensive human rights and environmental abuses were carried out. 2 And then, there is the case of Talisman Energy, the case from which this book takes its starting point—and through which the authors provide a direct and detailed account of the fractious site at which the operations of extractive industries in the Global South clash with the welfare, health and survival rights of local communities.
