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BREAKING: Shell to face grilling from Nigerian House of Reps over human rights abuses
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Oct 6, 2011
The House of Representatives, part of Nigeria's legislative body has ordered an official investigation into the allegations that Shell fuelled violence in the Niger Delta by paying armed militant gangs. As John Ameh reports from Punch, in Abuja: The House of Representatives on Wednesday ordered an investigation into the allegation that Shell Petroleum Development Company funded...
Report ties Shell to human rights abuse, environmental destruction in Niger Delta
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Oct 5, 2011
US radio station Free Speech Radio News interviews Platform's Ben Amunwa on the new report, Counting the Cost, which implicates Shell in new human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Shell fuelled conflict in the Niger Delta
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Oct 4, 2011
BBC Business Daily interviewed Platform in detail about its new report on Shell’s human rights abuses in the Niger Delta. Shell were invited to the interview but refused. The BBC World Service broadcast the report to hundred millions of listeners worldwide. The report, titled ‘Counting the Cost’ implicates Shell in cases of serious violence in...
Shell funds militant clashes in Nigeria
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Oct 4, 2011
CBC Radio Canada broadcast an interview with the author of Platform’s new report, Counting the Cost, on Shell’s human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Counting the Cost: corporations and human rights abuses in the Niger Delta
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Oct 3, 2011
Counting the Cost implicates Shell in cases of serious violence in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region from 2000 to 2010. The report uncovers how Shell’s routine payments to armed militants exacerbated conflicts, in one case leading to the destruction of Rumuekpe town where it is estimated that at least 60 people were killed. The report describes...
Corporate Power
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Sep 13, 2011
“The planet today is the battlefield of a 4th world war (the 3rd was the so-called ‘Cold War’). The aim of the belligerents is the conquest of the entire world through the market. The arsenals are financial; there are nevertheless millions of people being maimed or killed every moment… Globalisation is merely the totalitarian extension...
Fighting to keep fossil gas in the ground
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Sep 13, 2011
This project is part of Platform’s long-term commitment to support environmental justice struggles at the front lines of oil and gas drilling internationally. BP does not carry out fracking in the UK where it is headquartered, because “it would attract the wrong kind of attention”. But BP, Shell and a host of other companies are...
Crackdown intensifies in oil region – Shell pledges to keep paying Syrian regime
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Aug 26, 2011
The crackdown on the Syrian uprising has intensified in the eastern oil region around Deir Az-Zour. According to the FT, The towns of Mayadin and Burhama were attacked on Wednesday, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist group, with tanks and machine guns used during mass arrest campaigns. Another local resident said she had...
Shell has admitted liability but has a long way to go to make amends
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Aug 4, 2011
This article first appeared in The Guardian, Comment is Free on 4 August 2011. by Patrick Naagbanton, as told to Ben Amunwa Oil spills destroyed my village in Nigeria and decades of environmental and social injustice are still to be addressed Shell’s admission of liability for two massive oil spills in 2008-09 in my village of...
The FCO’s Human Rights Work 2010-11
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Jul 20, 2011
Evidence submitted to the Parliamentary the Foreign Affairs Committee. The Committee's inquiry posed the question of whether the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's mandate in prioritising British business interests contradicted its human rights mandate.
