Nigeria: Links to Recent Documents
Date distributed (ymd): 981025
Document reposted by APIC
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Region: West Africa
Issue Areas: +political/rights+
Summary Contents:
This posting contains web links to selected documents on Nigeria from September
and October, covering issues such as human rights, the environment and
the transition to civilian rule. The next posting contains excerpts from
two recent issues of the Nigeria Media Monitor (http://www.kilima.com/mediamonitor).
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Recent Policy Documents on the Web: Nigeria
UN Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) Update on pipeline
fire
October 21, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00798.html
[see also http://www.reliefweb.int]
Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationalities in the Niger
Delta
October 21, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00639.html
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)
Acting MOSOP President to return to Ogoni
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00638.html
[also see http://www.oneworld.org/mosop]
Nigeria Petrol Pipeline Explosion: An Avoidable Tragedy
Environmental Rights Action [Friends of the Earth Nigeria] October 21,
1998
http://www.kilima.com/nigeria/tragedy.html
"Redesigning a Nation" by Wole Soyinka October 16, 1998 in
Lagos
http://www.kilima.com/nigeria/soyinka.html
Center for Constitutional Rights plans to sue Chevron over death of
protesters in Nigeria
October 14, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00628.html
Amnesty International: Open Letter on Nigeria to
Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on the Harare Declaration
October 8-9, 1998
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1998/AFR/14403998.htm
Sierra Club
Ogoni 20 Freed, but Shell's Pollution Remains October 2, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00609.html
International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers'
Unions (ICEM)
"Oil Unions back in Workers' Hands"
October 1, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00611.html
[also see http://www.icem.org]
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)
Letter of Appreciation from the Ogoni 20
September 30, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00605.html
Human Rights Watch / Article 19
"Blair urged to take tough stand with Nigerian leader"
September 21, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00593.html
Africa Fund Statement on Release of the Ogoni 20 September 10, 1998
http://lists.essential.org/1998/shell-nigeria-action/msg00571.html
[also see http://www.prairienet.org/acas/afund.html]
[Note: The Africa Fund has recently issued a job announcement for a Director
of Administration.
For more information contact africafund@igc.apc.org
or telephone 212-785-1024.]
Committee to Protect Journalists
Meeting with Nigerian Journalists at conference in Ghana
September 8, 1998
http://www.cpj.org/news/1998/ghanaconf.html
For additional news see
http://www.africanews.org/west/nigeria
For additional background and more links see
http://www.africapolicy.org/action/nigeria.htm
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