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Nigeria: Crackdown In The Niger Delta

The Niger Delta has for some years been the site of major confrontations between the people who live there and the Nigerian government's security forces, resulting in extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, and draconian restrictions on the rights…
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Oil Companies Complicit in Nigerian Abuses

Rights Group Urges Oil Firms to Help Prevent Niger Delta Crackdown

(Lagos, February 23, 1999) - On the eve of Nigeria's presidential elections, multinational oil companies investing in the Niger Delta are failing to respond adequately to serious human rights abuse in that region, Human Rights Watch charged in a report…
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Recent Human Rights Violations in Nigeria’s Oil Producing Region

In late December 1998 and early January 1999, a military crackdown in the Niger Delta area led to the deaths of several tens of people, the torture and inhuman treatment of others, and the detention of more, many of whom are still held in police custody…
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The Enron Corporation

The Enron Corporation Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Key Individuals Named in this Report I.  Summary and Recommendations Recommendations To the Government of India To the Enron Corporation To the Government of the United States To…
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State of Emergency Declared in the Niger Delta

(New York, December 31, 1998) — Human Rights Watch condemns the fatal shooting by soldiers of at least three Ijaw youths holding a peaceful demonstration yesterday in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta. Another twelve deaths are…