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Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) and Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) / Nigeria

Country/Territory
Nigeria
Date
Oct 27, 2001
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Abstract

The communication alleged that the military government of Nigeria had been directly involved in oil production through the State oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), the majority shareholder in a consortium with Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC), and that those operations had caused environmental degradation and health problems resulting from the contamination of the environment among the Ogoni People

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achpr30_155_96_eng.pdf
achpr30_155_96_eng.pdf
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