Ken Saro-Wiwa

Environmental injustice is a crucial topic in Ken Saro Wiwa’s novel, A month and a Day. Saro Wiwa. This will be the text that will be closely read and analyzed. I will also be discussing the video from Blackboard week 5, which is examined in Saro Wiwa’s novel and his life story. In this novel, Saro Wiwa discusses the harm that is occurring due to the oil exploration. The violent and corrupted government allows this harm to the locals and the environment. Some locals even stand up to the oil companies

ability to express oneself. Without the capability to express oneself people feel stifled, cut off from the world around them, resulting in them feeling locked up. Through the use of opposition as a metaphor for imprisonment in The True Prison, Ken Saro Wiwa, the author, describes that a true prison is a lack of freedom of expression. The use of the “It is” statements as an opposition is a metaphor for what the imprisonment truly is, which is the imposed ideas and not being able

Ken Saro-Wiwa, the leader of MOSOP has gathered support from international nongovernmental organizations and has received international attention through media and U.N. meetings. The group presented Shell with demands to pay 10 billion dollars in damages to

Amnesty International is a non profit organization that help in the fighting of human rights all around the globe, this organization was founded by Peter Benenson in United kingdom 1961. International has close to about 7 million members all around the world, and their main objective is to ensure that human rights are never violated and also to help get justice to those whose right has been tempered with. And also they help them prevent violation of any form of films right both locally and internationally

Article Reflection and Case Summary 2 Tong, Yiran (Nina) #3480572 University of New Brunswick, Saint John MBA 7102 Deryk Stec Jan 29, 2015   Article Reflections Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda by John Gerard Ruggie Summary and background This paper analyzes the development of human rights and business in an international view, states the factual issues, and provides strategies to improve the existing realities. The article explains the conceptual challenges to let

In this paper, I estimate the impact of the Nigerian Presidential Amnesty Program (Amnesty), a local form of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), on crude oil production in Nigeria. The President of Nigeria announced the program on June 25th, 2009 which aimed to put an end to the insurgency crisis experienced in the Niger Delta region, particularly between 2006 - 2009 which had led to an average loss of about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day (cited in Asuni, 2009) and which had

Shell's oil plants where special police forces came in and killed and injured many Ogoni people. In May 1995 Ken Sao-Wiwa and his close MOSOP associates were accused of the murders of four Ogoni chiefs. Their trial was closed to the public Ken Saro-Wiwa's legal defense resigned saying that the trial was not impartial or independent and no matter what they would all be found guilty. Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his close associates were all hanged. Shell has since spent millions trying to repair the damage

Sordum Deeyaa ENG 1020 Ms. Campbell 29 November 2016 Research Paper Justice Through Environmental Cleanup I belong to a proud people called the Ogoni people. The Ogoni people are a minority tribe that’s in the Southeast of Nigeria and they happen to own most of the vast oil reserves in Nigeria. Why does this matter you ask? Well because they’ve been economically exploited, suffered environmental degradation and political marginalization in Nigeria for fighting for the right to self determine

Analysis: Litigation & Chiquita This case study deals primarily with the issue of litigation. The case study focuses especially on litigation concerned with U.S. companies being held accountable in U.S. courts for their actions and influences in foreign countries. The main company highlighted within the case study is Chiquita, the largest employer of banana workers in Latin America. This analysis will dive deeper into the actual issue of litigation and will focus on the Alien Tort Statute

Corporations, presently, are legal citizens in the United States. This legal citizenship guarantees all Corporations many of the legal rights that natural born citizens can enjoy with limited consequences for their actions. Presently since the law sees Corporations as “artificial citizens” many of the punishments for crimes committed by a Corporation are essentially null and void since these entities cannot cordially be punished for committing a crime as a physically living human can. Firstly