WASHINGTON - April 28 - The U.S. Congress's Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard testimony today about the negative environmental impacts of oil operations in the Niger Delta, including those of multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta.
July 2009
Nigeria: Amnesty International says pollution has created human rights tragedy in the Niger Delta
ABUJA, Nigeria - June 30 - Amnesty International today called the situation in the Niger Delta a “human rights tragedy,” saying that the people of the Niger Delta have seen their human rights abused by oil companies that their government cannot or will not hold to account.
