Environment, Human Rights and Oil Development in Turkmenistan

with Kate Watters, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Crude Accountability

Kate Watters will discuss the links between environmental and human rights violations and oil and gas development in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most opaque and authoritarian countries. She will focus on the various responses of international financial institutions, multi-national oil companies and western governments to Turkmenistan’s official policies, and discuss the role of civil society in highlighting and uncovering environmental and human rights abuses.