The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses

Transnational Corporations and Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 263-286

  Papaioannou, Asimina Manto ^a  

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