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NIGER DELTA: UK court ruling gives green light for corporations to profit from abuses overseas – Amnesty

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A UK High Court ruling that two Niger Delta communities devastated by oil spills cannot have their claims against Shell heard in the UK could rob them of justice and allow UK multinationals to commit abuses overseas with impunity, Amnesty International said today.   The High Court ruled today that Royal Dutch Shell cannot be […]

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Niger Delta: Government clean-up does not let Shell off the hook – Amnesty

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The multinational oil giant Shell must not be allowed to palm off its responsibility to clean up decades of oil pollution which continues to blight the Niger Delta, said Amnesty International ahead of the Nigerian government’s long overdue clean-up of Ogoniland, due to begin on 2 June. Scores of oil spills from Shell operations in […]

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