Today, the ICJ and The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition UK, welcomed the judgment of the UK Supreme Court in the case Okpabi et al. v Royal Dutch Shell plc et al as a major step forward for those seeking access to justice for corporate abuses in the Niger Delta and around the world. (more…)
The ICJ and Lawyers Alert today called on the Nigerian authorities to undertake immediate independent and thorough investigations into credible allegations of extrajudicial killings by the military responding to mass protests against the SARS police unit. (more…)
The CORE Coalition and the ICJ have jointly submitted evidence as interveners in a landmark case before the UK Supreme Court brought by some 40,000 people from the Ogale and Bille communities of the Niger Delta (Nigeria) against oil major Royal Dutch Shell (Okpabi et al vs Royal Dutch Shell et al) for serious harm […]
The ICJ and other human rights, environmental and development groups sent a letter to the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court in support of the Claimants’ application for permission to appeal in Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell plc and another [2018] EWCA Civ 191 (Okpabi). (more…)
(a) JAL 28/03/2014 Case No. NGA 2/2014 Alleged attacks on grounds of actual or perceived sexual orientation, and police inaction with regards to these attacks. Character of reply: no response Link to full text of the report: Report-SREJE-Communications-replies-2015-eng-fra-esp Link to Special Rapporteur’s correspondence with the State: Correspondence-SR-Nigeria-2-2014-eng
(a) JAL 28/03/2014 Case No. NGA 2/2014 State Reply: None to date Allegations concerning attacks against a group of men on grounds of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, and police inaction with regards to these attacks, on 12 and 13 February 2014 in Gishiri village, Abuja. 401. In the absence of information to the […]
