Niger Delta Environmental Accountability

ECOWAS Judgment - a key milestone for all You might have read in the newspaper about this ECOWAS* Judgment - it is a key moment for all of us at the Niger Delta in which local Farmers are trying to make the government and oil companies accountable for the pollution and damage in the region. In this case of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) versus Nigeria, the ECOWAS Court unanimously found the Nigerian government responsible for abuses by oil companies and makes it clear that the government must hold the companies and other perpetrators to account for the damage. * ECOWAS = Economic Community of West African States

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