HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

ExxonMobil must develop and adopt a verifiable, comprehensive and explicit human rights policy to guide its global operations, with an explicit commitment to support and uphold the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Even by oil company standards, ExxonMobil's human rights record is appalling. Villagers living around the company's natural gas operations in Aceh, Indonesia, are suing ExxonMobil for complicity in killings, torture and other severe human rights violations perpetrated by the Indonesian military guarding the company's facilities. In Chad and Cameroon, citizen opposition to the environmental and social consequences of ExxonMobil's Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline has been met with brutal government suppression. In Colombia, an entire village was forcibly relocated last year to make way for the expansion of South America's largest open pit coal mine, majority owned by ExxonMobil's wholly owned subsidiary Intercor. ExxonMobil then sold Intercor to its minority owners. And when Exxon merged with Mobil in 1999, it became the first U.S. employer ever to rescind a non-discrimination policy covering sexual orientation.

For more information:

ExxonMobil's Human Rights Record (.pdf, 57 Kb)

At the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting in Dallas on 29 May, Cut Zahara Hamzah, board member of the International Forum for Aceh, offered a testimony on ExxonMobil's human rights abuses. Read her full testimony.

Amnesty International USA: www.amnesty-usa.org

The Stop ExxonMobil Alliance is a broad association of rights groups working to influence ExxonMobil's behavior in the human rights, environment, governance and community relations areas. Alliance members support each others' demands but do not have expertise or take public position on all the issue areas.