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Peter Weiss

Peter Weiss is a vice president of the Centre for Constitutional Rights. He headed the Filártiga litigation team

February 2012

  • Charles Wiwa, Nigerian activist against Shell oil operations in Ongoni

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    The question before the US supreme court in Kiobel v Shell

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    Peter Weiss: If corporations have the same rights as people to make political donations, then surely they also have human rights obligations?

April 2011

  • The Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner

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    On the 35th anniversary of his death, Filártiga lives!

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    Peter Weiss: It is to the victim of a political murder in Paraguay in 1976 that we owe a founding principle of international criminal justice