EVENT: Unmasking the motives behind International Oil Companies (IOC) divestments in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
The Environmental Rights Action is inviting you to a zoom meeting on Unmasking the motives behind International Oil Companies (IOC) divestments in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.The objectives of the meeting are: To expose the deceit of the IOCs’ divestment in Nigeria’s Niger Delta To strengthen CSO advocacy on Leave Oil in the Soil and divestment of […]
ERA Hosts a Community Dialogue in Akwa Ibom
The project team, Waste Management and Pollution Monitoring Program of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) visited the Akpayak community today being the 8th day of February 2022. The visit was for a Community Dialogue session as a follow-up to the project ERA, currently implemented in Akwa Ibom and Edo State with a […]
Plastic Pollution: A case study of Benin City Metropolis
Plastic waste which is prevalent in our environment has increasingly caused some serious environmental concerns and has increased Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) due to poor waste management system, its non-degradability, and the absence of inefficient recycling plants. The increase of plastic waste in our environment is largely due to the affordability and durability of plastic […]
Latest Report: ZERO WASTE GUIDELINE
Zero Waste as an approach has been seen so far, as the best way to tackle the root causes of waste and broaden the obligation for real solutions. The idea for this guideline is to support governments’ decision-making in the attainment of effective waste management practices by introducing the concept of zero waste in the […]
A COMMUNIQUÈ FROM A WASTE PARLIAMENT HOSTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH NIGERIA ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021 AT FRESH SPRINGS HOTEL, UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE.
Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) with support from Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) met with stakeholders from the relevant waste management sector ERA/FoEN has been engaging with towards zero waste to reflect and develop strategies for the effective implementation of the recommendations coming out from the project. The Parliament evaluated the […]
Statement delivered during the 7th session of negotiations for a UN Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, Monday October 25th 2021
Mr. Chair-Rapporteur, I am Ubrei-Joe Mariere from Environmental Rights Action – Friends of the Earth Nigeria, speaking on behalf of Friends of the Earth International, members of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. Today we are living profound systemic crises that threaten our life and the planet. The climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the […]
Event: Climate & Environmental Litigations: The Story of the Victory of Ogoni people against Shell
ERA/FoEN is hosting an event – Climate and Environmental Litigations: The story of the victory of Ogoni people against Shell in solidarity with comrades across the African continent and the African Climate Justice Group in the first-ever AFRICA PEOPLES COUNTER COP. The event by ERA/FoEN will Hold on the 25th of October 2021 by 2.00 […]
ERA/FoEN, 15 other groups carpet AGRA, reiterate support for Agroecology
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and 15 other Food Sovereignty campaign organisations have urged Global North Governments to stop all financial and political support for the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and other initiatives promoting the Green Revolution. They were encouraged instead to channel their support to agroecology if […]
Memoranda submitted to the Senate National Public Hearing and the House of Representatives Zonal Public Hearings on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
On the 2nd through the 4th of June 2021, Barr. Chima Williams, the acting executive director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria presented these Memoranda BELOW to the Senate National Public Hearing and the House of Representatives Zonal Public Hearings on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. […]
NIGERIANS REJECT GMOS: Don’t Experiment With Us
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) in collaboration with the Health of Mother Foundation (HOMEF); together with representatives of farmers, consumers, civil society organizations, scientists, youth and women groups, organized a Nation-wide rally, to publicly denounce the unchecked admission into Nigeria of genetically modified (GM) crops and products. According to Mariann Bassey – […]