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KULS International Human Rights Clinic
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2011-2012 FOIA request and Legislative advocacy on resource transparency
In 2011 through 2012, the Clinic continued with its general goal of enhancing transparency around the multinational extractive companies' cooptation with the local authoritarian regimes, while the fact-finding efforts on the Shwe gas project inside Myanmar met with practical difficulties and was limited to secondhand accounts through the refugees in the Thailand border towns. The 2010 meeting with Earth Rights International suggested making FOIA requests to KOGAS, the South K
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Filing of lawsuit and Oct 2017 fact-finding visit
The negotiation with POSCO International broke down late 2015. The 2015 visit team came back with the land transfer contract (called "Agreement Bond") showing DAEWOO International as the acquiring party and yet POSCO's Director CHOI Jongbin insisted that it was the Myanmar government, not DAEWOO, that acquired the lands. It has been determined that a lawsuit against the Myanmar government under military rule would have been futile (see previous postings). The only reasonab
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Negotiation with POSCO and February 2015 fact-finding visit to Kyaukphyu Island
After the August 2013 visit where legal representation was in place for the Kyaukphyu farmers, the Clinic contacted DAEWOO International in February 2020 for negotiation. Daewoo International was not acquired by POSCO and it was called POSCO International. POSCO International argued that, although DAEWOO paid for the lands, it was the Myanmar government entity Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) that was a party to the land transfer. It was conflicting with the fact that
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August 2013 Finally Meets the Shwe Gas Victims on Kyaukphyu Island and last democracy seminar
During the four (4) fact-finding trips to Maesot or Chiang Mai in Thailand 2010-2013, the Clinic could hear only indirectly about the human rights situation around the Shwe gas facilities made inaccessible by the distance and borders tightly controlled by Myanmar's military. On August 18-19, 2013, the Clinic on its 5th fact finding trip finally visits Kyaukphyu Island and meets the farmers whose lands were taken by DAEWOO International under the process arranged by the milit
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