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  • Wiwa v. Shell: Victory Settlement!

    On June 8, 2009, the parties in Wiwa v. Shell agreed to settle human rights claims charging the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC or Shell Nigeria), and the former head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson, with complicity in the tortu...

  • June 3, 2009: Appeals Court Rules Against Shell Nigeria

    Appeals Court Rules Against Shell Nigeria, Allows Plaintiffs to Seek Further Information to Establish Connections to United States CONTACT: David Lerner, Riptide Communications (212) 260-5000 or (917) 612-5656 New York, June 3, 2009 – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the...

  • Trial Postponed

    Update, June 3, 2009: The court hearing scheduled for today, June 3, 2009, has been canceled by Chief Judge Kimba Wood. The court order can be found on the Attend the Trial page of this website. Please check back for further details on the trial start date. Update: June 1, 2009:   The Wiwa v. ...

  • New York Times: Oil Industry Braces for U.S. Trial on Rights Abuses

    May 21, 2009 Fourteen years after the execution of the Nigerian author and advocate Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nigeria’s former military regime, Royal Dutch Shell will appear before a federal court in New York to answer charges of crimes against humanity in connection with his death. Read the entire articl...

  • Son of late Late Nigerian activist’s son to see Shell in court

    NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been fighting for more than 13 years to make his late father's prediction come true. It will happen this month when relatives of victims of the Nigerian government's violent crackdown on residents of the oil-rich region, where Royal Dutch Shell had drilling...

  • The Black Commentator: Is Oil Worth More Than Blood In Nigeria?

    On May 26, 2009, a potentially historic human rights trial will take place in a federal court in New York.  At issue: What did Royal Dutch/Shell, the multinational oil giant, do in Nigeria? See full article here....

  • Attorney Judith Chompsky on Wake Up Call (WBAI Radio Show)

    Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorney Judith Chompsky appeared on WBAI on April 28, 2009 to talk about Wiwa v. Shell.  Listen here: [audio:Judith_Chomsky_On_ Wake_Up_Call.mp3]...

  • Congressional Commission Hears Testimony on Shell’s Environmental Abuses in the Niger Delta

    Washington, DC, April 28, 2009 – The U.S. Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard testimony today about the negative environmental impacts of oil operations in the Niger Delta, including those of multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. The h...

  • EarthRights International’s Ka Hsaw Wa Writes about Wiwa v. Shell in the Huffington Post

    Ka Hsaw Wa, Executive Director of EarthRights International, writes in an April 24th article in the Huffington Post about the open letter he and other former Goldman Environmental Prize winners issued this week in support of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Wiwa v. Shell case, as well as the significance of th...

  • Judge Rejects Last Ditch Attempt by Shell to Stop Human Rights Trial

    New York, April 23, 2009— This afternoon, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Royal Dutch Shell’s motion to dismiss a human rights case charging the company and the head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson, with complicity in the tortu...