NGOs investigating/filing cases in this area
Seizure of Resource / Pillage / Land Grabbing:
- Amazon Mining Watch
- Conflict Awareness Project
- Corporate Accountability Lab
- The Docket
- European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
- Enough Project
- Environmental Law Institute
- Global Witness
- Mining Watch
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- The Sentry
- Sherpa
- TRIAL International
Displacement / Transfer / Trafficking in Persons:
- Comité contre l’Esclavage Moderne
- ActionAid
- International Rights Advocates
- The Human Trafficking Legal Center
- European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
- International Federation for Human Rights
Relevant industries
Mining (especially precious metals, including minerals for new technologies such as cobalt, coltan…); oil and gas extraction; timber / logging; charcoal; large-scale agri-business (e.g. palm-oil, soy, sugar, rubber, cacao plantations).
Practical resources
- Enough Project, Grand Theft Global – Prosecuting the War Crime of Natural Resource Pillage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: http://www.enoughproject.org/reports/grand-theft-global
- Open Society Justice Initiative, Corporate War Crimes: Prosecuting the Pillage of Natural Resources: https://www.justiceinitiative.org/publications/corporate-war-crimes-prosecuting-pillage-natural-resources
- World Bank, Justice for Forests: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTFINANCIALSECTOR/Resources/Illegal_Logging.pdf
- ICRC Customary IHL Database, Rules 50 (Destruction and Seizure of Property of an Adversary) and 52 (Pillage)
- Al Haq, Pillage of the Dead Sea: Israel’s Unlawful Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: https://www.alhaq.org/publications/8076.html
- Olivia Radics and Carl Bruch, “The Law of Pillage, Conflict Resources, and Jus Post Bellum” (in Carsten Stahn, Jens Iverson, and Jennifer S. Easterday eds, Environmental Protection and Transitions from Conflict to Peace: Clarifying Norms, Principles, and Practices): https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198784630.001.0001/oso-9780198784630-chapter-7
- Michael Lundberg, “The Plunder of Natural Resources during War: A War Crime(?)” 39 Geo. J. Int’l L. 495 (2007-2008): https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/geojintl39&div=22&id=&page=
- Garima Tiwari, “Breaking the ‘Resource Curse’: Prosecuting Pillage of Natural Resources” (in Francesca Romanin Jacur, Angelica Bonfanti, and Francesco Seatzu eds, Natural Resources Grabbing: An International Law Perspective): https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004305663/B9789004305663-s021.xml
- Keenan, Patrick J. (2014) “Conflict Minerals and the Law of Pillage,” Chicago Journal of International Law: Vol. 14: No. 2, Article 6: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol14/iss2/6
