Report of ERA’s Engagement at the Regional Stakeholders Forum on Pesticides in Cotonou, Benin – August 2026
From Toxic Chemicals to Agroecological Solutions: Africa Must Act Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) represented by Rita Iyke Uwaka, the Administrator of the organization, joined civil society organisations and social movements from across Africa at a regional convening organised by COPAGEN during the 2026 World Social Forum in Cotonou, Benin. The meeting […]
ICARRD+20 : Joint Civil Society Statement
Protect Our Land, Restore Our Soil: Collective Territorialities for Land Justice, Pastoralist Futures, and Ecological Restoration As civil society organisations, social movements, faith-based actors, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralist and peasant organisations from Africa and across the Global South, we come to ICARRD+20 at a moment of deep crisis and urgent possibility. Twenty years after the first […]
Building a Healthy and a Thriving Future: Food Sovereignty
I rejoice today to be surrounded by such incredible power, extraordinary strength, brilliance, wisdom, grace, and leadership. When women unite, we spark each other’s light, and together, we move mountains, catalyse action, shape the future, and drive real transformative change. No wonder they say that “when women gather, the world shifts a little. And change […]
ERA Leads Rivers CSOs to NOSDRA For Pollution Free Environment In Niger Delta
As part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen environmental governance and accountability in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, Environmental Rights Action led other civil society groups in Rivers state on an advocacy visit to the Zonal Director of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on April 30, 2025. The ERA and civil society […]
World Seed Day: Withdraw From UPOV, Groups Urge Nigerian Government
Environmental Rights Action (ERA), and Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) have called on the Federal Government to withdraw from the International Union for the Protection of New Plant varieties (UPOV 1991), arguing that the Law, which is line with the UPOV’s provisions, undermines traditional agricultural practices and threatens farmers rights and freedom by opening […]
ERA/FoEN joins other CSOs to say NO to the Contemplated Resumption of Oil Extraction in Ogoni Land
Concerned civil society organisations in the Niger Delta met at the Port Harcourt office of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria to deliberate on the recent invitation by the office of the National Security Adviser to the President, Mr Nuhu Ribadu to some Ogoni leaders and stakeholders to a private meeting in Abuja to […]
Findings from GMOs Research and Outcome of Investigative Public Hearing Organized by the House of Reps on 19th November 2024
Food is a weapon. Whoever controls your food controls you and invariably controls society. When your SEEDS are controlled, your life is colonized! When the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was finally adopted in 2000 as a Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, international consensus grew to include the risks to human health, and socio-economic […]
Our Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future must be protected!
To mark this year’s edition of World Food Day with the theme ‘Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future’ public health experts and food sovereignty activists including our deputy executive director Mariann Bassey-Orovwuje issued a strong warning to the Nigerian government and demanded an immediate halt to the introduction of Genetically […]
Coalition urges FG to halt Introduction of GM potatoes, ban GMOs
Environmental Rights Action joined a coalition of over 100 civil society groups, farmers, scientists, legal professionals, and academics representing 100 million Nigerian consumers to call on the Nigerian government to abandon plans of introducing genetically modified (GM) potatoes and implement a total ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the country. The coalition strongly believes […]
ERA Lauds Renowned Environmentalist on his well-deserved Wallenberg Medal Award
Environmental Rights Action (ERA) congratulates Nnimmo Bassey a foremost environmentalist, architect, founding father of our dear organization, poet, and director of Africa’s ecological think tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation,(HOMEF) for receiving the prestigious Wallenberg Medal Award from the University of Michigan, United States of America; The Wallenberg Medal for the year 2024. This medal […]