Gas leaks are threatening to destroy the Bille community in Nigeria. The government and oil firms must expedite the investigation to protect their lives.
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Alarming new video footage sourced from Bille, Nigeria, shows methane gas leaks bubbling to the surface in rivers & swamps, putting local residents lives in danger.
@amnesty.org calls for the Nigerian Government to rapidly expedite its investigation.
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Amnesty International’s Corporate Crimes Handbook is also available here.
We hope this Handbook serves as a resource that supports civil society practitioners & affected communities to ensure that impunity for corporate crime comes to an end.
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The full episode is available to download or stream at the Activist Lawyer website here 👇
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“Most importantly I’d say that the main way that we support one another is that we live our values and we infuse them into our work in a meaningful way”
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“In general human rights work is incredibly challenging… the work can feel endless… I always ask people to write themselves a letter and when you have moments of doubt you can remember why you got into it in the first place.”
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“Good facts tend to make good law and so we need to find those facts.”
There are plenty of free resources online including Amnesty’s corporate crimes handbook for investigators to use.
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On the latest episode of the @activistlawyerpod.bsky.social
podcast, @amnesty.org ’s Roi Bachmutsky highlights how many NGOs want to work on BHR as companies operating in their countries have caused massive environmental harm and pollution.
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Amnesty's Roi Bachmutsky discusses corporate criminal liability on latest episode of @activistlawyerpod.bsky.social podcast.
How companies become implicated in corporate crimes, to investigating supply chains & preparing criminal complaints.
#bizhumanrights
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This includes the La Fronterita case that @amnesty.org submitted an amicus brief in support of, where executives are alleged to have been complicit in crimes against humanity by the Argentinian dictatorship.
Please tune in to the episode!
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Amnesty's Legal Advisor Roi Bachmutsky & Gabriel Pereira of ANDHES spoke with with Janet and Stephanie of the @asymmetricalh.bsky.social podcast about our Corporate Crimes Handbook & the cutting edge cases being brought across Latin America.
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Breaking News: Journalists & NGO workers are acquitted for a 2nd time in a defamation lawsuit brought by Kolmar Group AG against Public Eye & TRIAL International
The was seen as being a classic SLAPP, and the acquittal is a win for corporate accountability
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Join Amnesty Canada on February 4th, at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET for Extraction Extinction: Ending the Fossil Fuel Era — an urgent online mobilization session about Canada’s role in fossil fuel financing and how you can take action.
Register now at: amnesty.ca/event/extrac...
New @amnesty.org investigation published today: Myanmar: Jet fuel used in deadly air strikes flowing in on ‘ghost ships’ with suspected links to Iran
Read the full article here👇
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It also seeks to close impunity gaps that may arise from the ambiguity and qualifications in the existing draft articles.
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This position aims to amend the International Law Commission's Draft articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, which are now being negotiated by the UN Preparatory Committee to create at a binding treaty on crimes against humanity.
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Amnesty International endorsed the briefing published by @trialinternational.bsky.social supporting the position that there must be accountability for all persons that commit crimes against humanity including legal persons such as corporations.
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At #WEF #Davos, the world’s richest will meet under “A Spirit of Dialogue”. But dialogue w/out multilateral cooperation & int’l law means nothing. While most of the #SDGs are off-track, authoritarian practices threaten peace, worsen the climate crisis & erode #humanrights. A 🧵
New article: "Since Nineteen Fifty-Six: Nigeria, Oil and the Niger Delta (Simplified)"
A short history of oil extraction in the Niger Delta by Iniruo Wills for @AtlDigest marks the 70th anniversary of the first oil extraction in Nigeria.
Read the article here👇
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“The ‘spirit of dialogue’, the theme for this year’s meeting in Davos, has been painfully and increasingly absent from international affairs of late,” said @agnescallamard.bsky.social
ahead of attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in #Davos.
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The need for stronger protections is now more urgent than ever.
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The 2024 @Amnesty report “The cost of doing business?” on the US petrochemical industry urged Congress to strengthen environmental regulations and set strict limits on pollutants that harm people, the environment and climate.
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This change means EPA rules on fine particulate matter and ozone will now focus only on costs to industry. It’s part of President Trump’s "business‑friendly” agenda, which has rolled back policies meant to safeguard human health, the environment and slow climate change.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has just announced it will stop calculating how many lives are saved - and how much health care money is avoided - by air pollution rules that curb two deadly pollutants.
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New year, new EU council presidency.
Cyprus has assumed the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU & set out 5 priorities - autonomy, security, defence, migration & support for Ukraine.
President Christodoulides must put human rights at the centre of Cyprus' mandate 🧵
People in Iran daring to express their anger at decades of repression and demand fundamental change are being met with unlawful use of force and firearms and mass arbitrary arrests, in scenes reminiscent of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising of 2022.
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Just this week, MEPs in the @europarl.europa.eu voted through a sweeping #OmnibusI deregulation package.
Now, EU governments must strengthen key provisions when they incorporate these regulations in national law.
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Amnesty launched our new Corporate Crimes Handbook at a packed event at the 14th UN Forum on BHR in Geneva #UNForumBHR
The Handbook compiles insights & lessons learned by practitioners, communities & law enforcement in #CorporateCrimes cases.
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Amnesty's flagship report on fossil fuel infrastructure “Extraction Extinction” was launched at #COP30 in Belem, Brazil. It included a dedication to the #OgoniNine and a case study on oil company Shell’s legacy in the Niger Delta.
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10 November was the 30th Anniversary of the execution of the Ogoni Nine by the then Nigerian military dictatorship in 1995.
The men led by author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa brought global attention to the devastating environmental damage in the Niger Delta.
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