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UN experts concerned about human rights violations linked to mercenary-related activities in natural resource exploitation
16 Sep 2025 09:12 GMT
… oil, timber, and agricultural land. Their activities frequently result in grave human rights … and smuggling operations, sometimes using shell companies and weak regulatory frameworks … urges companies to conduct rigorous human rights due diligence and suspend …
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Corrupt elites in South Sudan divert billions of oil money to fuel crisis—UN report
16 Sep 2025 15:32 GMT
… : How Rampant Corruption Unleashed a Human-Rights Crisis in South Sudan,” reveals … on Human Rights in South Sudan found that political leaders diverted oil revenue … redirected through unclear contracts and shell companies, leaving many without access …
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Civic Groups Mark Ken Saro-Wiwa's 30-Year Legacy, Demand Justice As Niger-Delta Still Battles Oil Spill, Gas Flaring
15 Sep 2025 16:21 GMT
… their resistance against oil pollution and human rights abuses in Ogoniland. … ultimate price for confronting Shell. His peaceful resistance … ongoing divestment plans in Nigeria, which ignores governance … pollution and death that Shell and its collaborators …
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ICJ Climate Ruling May Help Fight Against Shell's S. Africa Drilling Plans
15 Sep 2025 01:22 GMT
… to stop global oil company Shell from drilling for oil and gas off … government has not considered how Shell’s oil exploration will contribute to … favor of environmental justice and human rights groups. It confirms that governments …
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Shell, mineral and petroleum resources department to appeal court ruling blocking offshore oil drilling
09 Sep 2025 12:49 GMT
… the environmental authorisation to Shell.
The department of forestry … a big win for human rights and climate justice, especially … an oil spill caused by a well blowout.”
Shell Exploration … impacts of an oil spill, despite uncertainties. Shell contends that …
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UN experts accuse top oil firms of rights violations over Nigerian asset sales
02 Sep 2025 17:04 GMT
Oil giants Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies breached international human rights law by selling their … assets in Nigeria without cleaning …
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Labour must end criminalisation of climate protesters
17 Sep 2025 00:13 GMT
… of hypocrisy when condemning human rights abuses abroad.
Shamefully, … help criminalise climate defenders. Oil companies have worked with … infrastructure.
Last year, oil giant Shell launched a $2.1 … political influence of the oil and gas industry.
Anything …
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Trump’s EPA argues that regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unnecessary
15 Sep 2025 20:28 GMT
September 15 is the last day the public can register their reactions to a proposal by the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind the Endangerment Finding, the foremost legal precedent for regulating climate change-causing …
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Unfortunately, Donald Trump is Not a Socialist
16 Sep 2025 21:08 GMT
… the property and power of Shell, BP, and Exxon. Soaring … basic necessities are your universal human rights, regardless of how much or … Arabia has a state-run oil company—Saudi Aramco—but … with the Getty family of oil billionaires, who “informally adopted” …
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Fears balloon of a return to civil war in South Sudan over treason trial
16 Sep 2025 18:25 GMT
… billions of dollars in oil revenues, and leaving millions … United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has … #39;s controversial "Oil for Roads" programme … disappearing through opaque deals and shell companies," she warned. …