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"Many energy companies have invested in closed or repressive countries -- arguing that their investment would help develop the local economy and thereby improve the human rights situation. But in this case, Enron has invested in a democratic country -- and human rights abuses there have increased. Enron hasn't made things better for human rights; it has made things worse." |
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Table of Contents
Key Individuals Named in this Report I. Summary and Recommendations II. Background: New Delhi and Bombay III. Background to the Protests: Ratnagiri District IV. Legal Restrictions Used to Suppress Opposition to the Dabhol Power Project V. Ratnagiri: Violations of Human Rights 1997VII. Complicity: The Dabhol Power Corporation VIII. Responsibility: Financing Institutions and the Government of the United States ![]() Appendix A: Correspondence Between Human Rights Watch and the Export-Import Bank of the United States Appendix B: Report of the Cabinet Sub-Committee to Review the Dabhol Power Project Appendix D: Correspondence Between the Government of India and the World Bank ![]() |
VIII. Responsibility: Financing Institutions and the Government of the United States
Human Rights Watch believes that the financiers of Phase I, and the U.S. government agencies involved in lobbying for the project, share responsibility for the human rights violations described above. The U.S. government bears special responsibility because of its forceful, aggressive lobbying on behalf of the three U.S.-based companies developing the project; and because it extended hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds for the project while it was seemingly indifferent to the human rights policies that govern these transactions.
264 “Before the Deluge: Human Rights Abuses at India’s Narmada Dam,” A Human Rights Watch Short Report, Vol. 4, Issue 15, June 17, 1992, p. 3. 265 “The Three Gorges Dam in China: Forced Resettlement, Suppression of Dissent and Labor Rights Concerns,” A Human Rights Watch Short Report, Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1995, p. 5. | |
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