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REDD+, the commercialization of Nature and the Rights of Mother Earth.

Grace Appolos, Human rights, Environment and Climate Campaigner, We the PeopleREDD+ is perhaps one of the most celebrated and promising climate change mitigation programmes under the UNFCCC frameworks. Touted as a ‘nature-based solution’, REDD+ has been widely propagated as a safe and prudent strategy to curb carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. However, the implementation of…

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January 11, 2024
Read more about the article Cut and run – Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away.
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Cut and run – Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away.

By Ken Henshaw First published on New Internationalist The two largest transnational oil companies operating in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, Shell and ExxonMobil, are packing up and leaving. Both companies have announced separate plans to sell off their assets as soon as they find buyers and to leave the Niger Delta, where they have extracted crude oil…

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May 11, 2022
Read more about the article ‘Oil companies owe a debt to the lives destroyed’
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‘Oil companies owe a debt to the lives destroyed’

  In this interview, Ken Henshaw explains why Nigerians are demanding reparations for over 60 years of Shell oil extraction   (First published on Open Democracy) Ken Henshaw is the executive director of We the People, a non-governmental organisation based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Henshaw works closely with local communities to expand civic engagement and organise…

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March 23, 2022
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Why Nigeria’s Corruption Problem is Not Going Anywhere Soon

By Kehinde Ogunyale of We the People’s Communication Team  The latest Corruption Perceptions Index ranking by global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International has placed Nigeria as the second most corrupt country in West Africa. Nigeria tops the list of 15 most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency International revealed that Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 points…

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January 31, 2022
Read more about the article Exoneration, not a Pardon, for Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Other Ogonis Murdered in 1995: Media Statement
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Exoneration, not a Pardon, for Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Other Ogonis Murdered in 1995: Media Statement

On the 22 nd of October 2021, a select group of Ogoni leaders attended a parley at State House with President Muhammadu Buhari. Among other issues, the President stated that the ‘federal government will consider the request for the grant of pardon to finally close the Ogoni saga’. The President made this commitment to ‘consider’ a…

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November 2, 2021
Read more about the article “REDD+ Has Not Benefitted the People” Interview with Cross River State Forestry Chief
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“REDD+ Has Not Benefitted the People” Interview with Cross River State Forestry Chief

A Conversation with Chairman of the Cross River State Forestry Commission …Responsible for the largest remaining forest in Nigeria, and destination of REDD+ We the People: Our researches indicate a high rate of logging in the reserved forests of Cross River state, which will in turn reinforce climate change impacts. What is the state government’s response…

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April 20, 2021
Read more about the article The Challenges of Benefit Transfer to Oil Producing Communities in Nigeria — A chat with Ken Henshaw
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The Challenges of Benefit Transfer to Oil Producing Communities in Nigeria — A chat with Ken Henshaw

*This chat with the Executive Director of We the People was conducted by Budgit on Twitter and first published on Medium in October 2020 The challenges of benefit transfer to host communities in oil producing states is certainly not a new conversation. In fact, the discourse has been a laser focus in recent years, with perceptive…

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March 23, 2021