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Nigeria: thousands of evictees suffer homelessness and loss of livehood after Ijora Badia forced evictions

Spaces for Change released a press release on the situation of thousands of evictees suffering homelessness and loss of livehood after Ijora Badia forced evictions.

Friends of Badia East from across the civil...

Right Livelihood Foundation laureates demand environmental justice in Ogoniland (Nigeria)

Laureates expressed their support to the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People about the ongoing pollution in Ogoniland and urge the Nigerian President to take action on the Ogoni UNEP report, three years after it was submitted

Members of the SMWG use collective publication Land in the Struggle for Justice to advance human rights.

On 4 January, 2014, the ESCR-Net publication, Land in the Struggle for Justice: Social Movement Strategies to Secure Human Rights, was launched in Ogoniland, Nigeria. The document, which describes several human rights strategies employed by grassroots organizations, was presented by MOSOP - a contributor - to community members at the conclusion of a celebration to commemorate Ogoni Day.

50,000 march in Nigeria to demand the rights of Ogoni People

On January 4, 2014, more than fifty thousand Ogoni people from Niger Delta communities celebrated the 21st anniversary of the Ogoni struggle for justice (Ogoni Day). The mobilization, was organized by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and coincided with the launching of “Land in the Struggle for Justice: Social Movement Strategies to Secure Human Rights”, an ESCR-Net publication

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People mobilize on Human Rights Day

Thousands of Ogoni people, led by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), mobilized to mark this year's International Human Rights Day (December 10, 2013) with a peaceful protest against the Federal Government of Nigeria over its denial of the Ogoni people's right to clean and safe environment thus compromising her right to life amongst others.

Ogoni March for International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2013

Over ten thousand Ogonis including MOSOP activists marched on Bori, the Ogoni ancestral capital to commemorate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and protest the failure of the Nigerian Government to implement the UNEP environmental assessment report on Ogoni two years after its official release.

UN slams Shell over Nigeria oil pollution

A UN report says it will cost up to $1bn and take 30 years to clean up the damage done by decades of drilling by Shell. Oil exploration in Nigeria's south for several decades has had a debilitating effect on the environment of the region.

Click on the title above to see a short video about oil in Ogoniland.

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from southern Nigeria

Jan. 20, 2011: SERAC Wins the 2010 MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions

The Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) has received the 2010 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions (MACEI) in recognition of the organization's consistent work in the advancement and protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Nigeria.

Victory: Settlement Reached in Human Rights Cases Against Royal Dutch/Shell

On June 8th, 2009, the parties in Wiwa v. Shell agreed to settle human rights claims charging the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC or Shell Nigeria), and the former head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson, with complicity in the torture, killing, and other abuses of Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa as well as other non-violent Nigerian activists in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in the mid-1990s.