Niger Delta Environmental Accountability

● HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE NIGER DELTA Human Rights Violations are real in Niger Delta Oil Producing Communities. The ECOWAS Court judgment orders government to punish oil companies over pollution in the Niger Delta Nigeria. The Niger Delta Women and Communities welcomed this juridical action after decades of environmental maltreatment. It is only by holding the polluter accountable for its pollution, and making the polluter pay, that we can finally make steps to protect human rights in our countries. The centre of Nigeria's human rights crisis has been the treatment of the minority and indigenous peoples of the Niger Delta River where the nation's exploration and exploitation of crude oil takes place.

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