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HYPREP: DO NOT AWARD NEW CLEAN-UP CONTRACTS WITHOUT ADDRESSING EMERGENCY MEASURES IN OGONILAND!

Press Release HYPREP: DO NOT AWARD NEW CLEAN-UP CONTRACTS WITHOUT ADDRESSING EMERGENCY MEASURES IN OGONILAND! While speaking on an Environmental Parliament program on WISH, 99.5FM Port Harcourt by 10AM this morning, I called on Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) NOT to award new clean-up contracts in Ogoni without addressing issues around emergency measures as recommended…

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NOSDRA’S HASTY CRIMINALIZATION OF COMMUNITIES ON SPILL REPORTS; A DISAPPOINTMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL STAKEHOLDERS

PRESS RELEASE                                                                                    NOVEMBER 27, 2019. NOSDRA’S HASTY CRIMINALIZATION OF COMMUNITIES ON SPILL REPORTS; A DISAPPOINTMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL STAKEHOLDERS The haste with which the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), criminalizes host communities while struggling to exonerate the IOCs on incidences of oil spills even when a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) has not been…

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ADVOCACY CENTRE FLAGS-OFF MOBILIZATION, SENSITIZATION OF ONE MILLION YOUTH VOLUNTEERS AS HUMAN DEFENDERS IN THE NIGER DELTA

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has concluded plans to flag-off the mobilization and sensitization of ONE MILLION YOUTH VOLUNTEERS as HUMAN RIGHT DEFENDERS in the Niger Delta. According to the Executive Director of Advocacy Centre, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, the youths would also volunteer as Environmental Justice Activists, Climate Change Campaigners, Health Issues and Reporters…

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Advocacy Centre Creates Awareness on Human Rights in County Grammar School

  Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) and Society for Women and Youths Affairs (SWAYA) on Thursday, 14th November, 2019 organised sensitization for students of County Grammar School, Ikwerre/Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State on human rights. The program which was declared open by the Executive Director of SWAYA, Stella Amanie had students, teachers…

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Students of Birabi Memorial Grammar Receive training on Human Rights Education

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Friday, November 8, 2019 organized sensitization on human rights for hundreds of students of Birabi Memorial Grammar School Bori-Ogoni, Rivers State. The sensitization is part of a project being implemented by Advocacy Centre in collaboration with Society for Women and Youths Affairs (SWAYA) with the support of Development…

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