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 […]
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 […]
Resilience and the Power of Economic Solidarity
As we gather to explore, learn, and find new ways to face the environmental challenges that have impacted our communities, this workshop on resilience and economic solidarity has now more than ever become a powerful platform for reconnecting with our strengths and learning skills that will empower us and our communities. As we know, deforestation […]
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 […]
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. […]
ERA/FoEN CALLS FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO HOLD DIVESTING IOCS IN THE NIGER DELTA TO ACCOUNT
The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN)believes the international oil companies operating in Nigeria have lost the right to simply divest in Nigeria, as they cannot be allowed to leave the communities they have subjected to environmental and human right abuses, without addressing the issues. ERA/FoEN Executive Director, Chima Williams stated this […]