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 […]
Agroecology helps to Reduce Land Degradation says ERA/FoEN
As the world marks the Annual World Environment Day, Mariann Orovwuje, Deputy Executive Director, ERA/FoEN says that we shall continue to make a case for agroecology that has proven to help reduce land degradation, we stand to support and promote community land rights for food sovereignty in rural communities in Nigeria and Africa. There is […]
ERA/FoEN, HOMEF, GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance Applaud House of Reps Decision to Investigate the Introduction of GMOs in Nigeria
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance have commended the House of Representatives on the resolution to comprehensively investigate the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into Nigeria and for a halt on approval of new products pending the completion of that investigation. […]
Press release: NO TO GM WHEAT!
Food sovereignty alliance from Africa, Latin America, and Asia approaches seven UN Special Rapporteurs for urgent intervention to block cultivation and trade of GM wheat HB4 On 26 January 2024, a submission was made in English, Spanish, and Portuguese to seven United Nations Special Rapporteurs1 dealing with human rights, the environment, food, toxic chemicals, water […]
Brief Report on Pesticides Hazards and Human Rights
Mariann Bassey Orovwuje, Deputy Director of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and the Coordinator of the Food Sovereignty Program, Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA) made a presentation on “Pesticide, Food Safety and Human Rights (Instances of Litigations, Workers Rights & Roles of Advocates/Right Defenders.),” on a training event which was hosted by the […]
CLAMP YOUR LEAKING PIPELINE IN EKURABA CREEK, BAYELSA, ERA/FoEN URGES SHELL
The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on Shell to immediately clamp its leaking condensate pipeline located at Ekuraba Creek in Otuasega community in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State. The call came after a field visit by a team led by the Program Manager and Head of the […]
EDO OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITY CALLS FOR AN END TO OIL AND GAS EXTRACTIONS
The people of the indigenous Gele Gele Community in Edo State have called for an end to oil and gas exploration in their community, and payment for the loss and damage to their environment that they have endured for seven decades of extractive activities. The representatives of the community spoke in a meeting organized by […]