12 February 2021, 12:10 UTC
The UK Supreme Court has today ruled in favour of two Niger Delta communities who are seeking justice for environmental damage caused by Shell (Okpabi et al vs Royal Dutch Shell et al).
The Court found that the Ogale and Bille communities can bring their legal claims for clean-up and compensation against Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS) and its Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC).
The ruling sets an important precedent for holding other multinationals to account. Mark Dummett, Director of Amnesty International s Global Issues Programme, said:
“This landmark ruling could spell the end of a long chapter of impunity for Shell, and for other multinationals who commit human rights abuses overseas. Shell’s own records show the extent of the oil spills which continue to ravage the land of the Ogale and Bille communities, poisoning their water and destroying livelihoods.
Ongoing tear gas misuse leading to protesters’ deaths and injuries
Website details more than 100 incidents in 31 countries and territories
“The ongoing misuse of tear gas by police forces around the world is reckless and dangerous” – Patrick Wilcken
Amnesty International has today published new evidence of the misuse of tear gas by security forces in several countries in the second half of 2020, including during protests around the election in Uganda, the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA, and in the repression of protesters in Lebanon.
The organisation’s interactive website
Tear Gas: An Investigation has now been updated to include new cases of police committing human rights violations against peaceful protesters around the world.
5 February 2021, 00:00 UTC
Amnesty International today published new evidence of the misuse of tear gas by security forces in several countries in the second half of 2020, including during protests around the election in Uganda, the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA, and in the repression of protesters in Lebanon.Â
The organizationâs interactive website
Tear Gas: An Investigation has now been updated to include new cases of police committing human rights violations against peaceful protesters around the world. The ongoing misuse of tear gas by police forces around the world is reckless and dangerous Patrick Wilcken
Since first launching the site in June 2020, Amnesty International has verified recent incidents of tear gas misuse in several countries, including France, Guatemala, India, Mali, Nigeria, Peru, Serbia and Tunisia.
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Human rights organisation Amnesty International says that governments’ abusive policing and excessive reliance on law enforcement to implement Covid-19 response measures have violated human rights and in some instances made the health crisis worse, Amnesty International said today.