Withdrawing their complaint against a Michelin plant in the Tamil Nadu State in India wasn’t completely for naught. More than a month after ‘unseizing’ the OECD’s French National Contact Point (NCP, the government body in charge of dealing with alleged violations of the guidelines for multinationals) to protest against failures in the way the case was being handled, the plaintiff associations and NGOs are waiting for the French State to implement concrete measures. They denounce the NCP’s lack of independence and transparency and its inability to denounce French firms’ violations of peoples’ rights. (Ref. 130688)
For 5 years, villagers in Thervoy, southern India, have been fighting against a large Michelin plant making truck tires, a project backed up by the Tamil Nadu State administration. Supported by two Indian associations (Tamil Nadu Land Right Federation and Thervoy Sangam) as well as French organizations (CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Sherpa and CGT), Indian peasants denounce the lack of information and consultation of the local population, the project’s social and environmental impact, and the failure
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