Environmental Rights Action

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  • Benin City, Edo State,, Nigeria

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Environmental Rights Action

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Benin City, Edo State,, Nigeria

Environmental Rights Action (ERA) is a Nigerian advocacy non-governmental organisation founded in 1993 to deal with environmental human rights issues in Nigeria. ERA is the Nigerian chapter of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the world environmental justice federation campaigning to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies. ERA is the co-ordinating NGO in Africa for Oilwatch International, the global South network of groups concerned about the effects of oil on the environment of people who leave in oil-bearing regions. ERA is the premier winner of the Sophie Prize. 

The organisation is dedicated to the defence of human ecosystems in terms of human rights, and to the promotion of environmentally responsible governmental, commercial, community and individual practice in Nigeria through the empowerment of local people. It describes itself as having two purposes: 

• to act as a peaceful pressure group, campaigning for change in the policies of governmental, non-governmental and commercial organisations where those policies are likely to act against environmental human rights; and 

• to enable local people to defend their environmental human rights in law. PHILOSOPHY ERA is bound together and guided by a philosophy which avoids moral ambiguity when approaching problems of human ecology.

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