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	<title>Remember Saro Wiwa &#187; Ogoni</title>
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		<title>Hold Shell accountable for human rights abuses in Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A global coalition of NGOs, human rights monitors, academics and analysts have joined Platform in sending a letter to the Board members of Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Nigeria which holds Shell to account for its role in recent human rights abuses in Nigeria. Below is a short extract from the letter: Today the US Supreme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/hold-shell-accountable-for-human-rights-abuses-in-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>Legal Oil, Ethical Oil and Profiteering in the Niger Delta and the Canadian North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this guest blog post, Professor Anna Zalik of York University Canada explores how governments and multinationals criminalise protest and gloss over the environmental injustices of oil extraction. Q: What does the Canadian Government’s fury at opponents of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline have to do with the Nigerian &#8216;legaloil&#8217; campaign? A: Both positions are about justifying private profits and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/legal-oil-ethical-oil-and-profiteering-in-the-niger-delta-and-the-canadian-north/</link>
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		<title>Event: Fighting the Oil Giant, at The Phoenix Artists Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a message from Lifelines who are organising a great event in memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa. &#8220;Dear Friends, We have a remarkable line up for Lifelines&#8217; next gig, Fighting The Oil Giant, to be held at The Phoenix Artists Club , off Charing X Rd on Wednesday 30th November at 7.30pm. John Haynes is the winner of the Costa Award [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/event-fighting-the-oil-giant-at-the-phoenix-artists-club/</link>
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		<title>Protest Exposes Shell&#8217;s Grim Record on Human Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Shell came face to face with its grim record on human rights in Nigeria at a corporate event for London&#8217;s bright young entrepreneurs. Protesters in haunting costumes from London Rising Tide stormed the Shell Live Wire event, unfurling a large banner and distributing leaflets to event attendees. Watch the video by you and i films here: The protest coincides with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Own Up, Clean Up, Pay Up: Amnesty&#8217;s new report on Shell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International today demanded that Shell immediately pay $1 billion towards an initial clean up fund for the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta, a scheme recommended by the UN this August. A new report today published by Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) has called on Shell to accept responsibility [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/own-up-clean-up-pay-up-amnestys-new-report-on-shell/</link>
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		<title>Shell funds militant clashes in Nigeria: exclusive interviews with Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC Business Daily conducted an in-depth interview with researcher Ben Amunwa about Platform&#8217;s new report, titled Counting the Cost, on Shell&#8217;s human rights abuses in the Niger Delta. Shell were invited to the interview but refused to attend. The BBC World Service broadcast the interview to hundred millions of listeners worldwide this morning. You can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/shell-funds-militant-clashes-in-nigeria-exclusive-interviews-with-platform/</link>
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		<title>New research reveals Shell paid militants who destroyed Nigerian towns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday 3 October 2011 New research reveals Shell paid militants who destroyed Nigerian towns Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed militants, according to a new report published by Platform and a coalition of NGOs and featured today in The Guardian. [1] Counting the Cost implicates Shell in cases of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/new-research-reveals-shell-paid-militants-who-destroyed-nigerian-towns/</link>
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		<title>Legal analysis: Shell Nigeria lawsuits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael D. Goldhaber is an expert on human rights law and corporate accountability in the US. In his recent article in AM Law Daily, he offers up his views on the settlement between claimants from the village of Bodo and Shell over massive oil spills caused by the company in 2008-2009. Royal Dutch Shell has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/legal-analysis-shell-nigeria-lawsuits/</link>
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		<title>Aljazeera: UN slams Shell over Nigeria pollution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aljazeera produced this excellent video about Shell&#8217;s oil spills in Ogoni. In it, Ledum Mittee of MOSOP (the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) calls on the Nigerian government to revoke Shell&#8217;s licence.]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/aljazeera-un-slams-shell-over-nigeria-pollution/</link>
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		<title>UNEP report on oil spills in Ogoni: a summary from SDN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t have the time to read UNEP&#8217;s 262 page report on the impact of oil spill&#8217;s in Ogoni, don&#8217;t panic. Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a group that works on the ground in the Niger Delta supporting community rights, has produced this helpful summary. As we noted previously, UNEP&#8217;s findings are particularly damning for Shell. As the main [...]]]></description>
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