Ecuador, Quito: A march of Ecuadorean indigenous people arrives in Quito on July 1, 2014 protesting for the Water Law that withdraws the right of the natives to administrate the water sources in their territories. © AFP Photo/Juan Cevallos
Ecuador, Quito: A march of Ecuadorean indigenous people arrives in Quito on July 1, 2014 protesting for the Water Law that withdraws the right of the natives to administrate the water sources in their territories. © AFP Photo/Juan Cevallos.

Disclaimer: The following section has been kept for comparative purposes (the doctrine of forum non conveniens is applied in other jurisdictions). However, most of the cases which would previously have been affected by FNC would nowadays be dissmissed on the basis of the Kiobel decision . See the part on Exploring the future and viability of ATS a