Human Rights Law

Massive Oil Spills in Nigeria Common
While the BP oil spill in the gulf is getting world wide attention, little has been reported until now about the almost constant environmental devastation caused by oil spills in Nigeria...

Accused Nigeria rebel leader given amnesty in treason case
[JURIST] Accused Nigerian rebel leader Henry Okah was released on Monday after the government dropped treason and gun trafficking charges against him. The government alleges that Okah is the leader of the rebel group Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), which has been conducting armed attacks against oil production facilities in the delta...

Now We All (Sort of) Support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Because international law supported European assertions of sovereignty over Indigenous territories beginning in the 15th century it?s appropriate for international law to deal with the issue of Indigenous rights now...

KYLE SMITH ON CORPORATE GREED: Its a classic American saga of top hats against hard hats, lions
KYLE SMITH ON CORPORATE GREED: It?s a classic American saga of top hats against hard hats, lions versus sheep, the one percenters and the forgotten 99. It?s a story about fundamental unfairness, corporate excess, and naked greed...

Climate Change Fix Threatens Indigenous Peoples
And by Nkasi Adams [Here at the University of Saskatchewan I have the pleasure of supervising graduate students working in the areas of Canadian Aboriginal law and international Indigenous rights...

Indigenous Peoples Wont Be Wished Away In Traditional Knowledge Treaty Talks
Colonial history says that indigenous peoples were in the past sometimes asked to sign treaties that may not have been in their best interest or that were not honoured. Now, under the aegis of the United Nations, some indigenous peoples fear it may be happening again, only this time they are fighting to be at the table as the subject is their traditional practices, and the outcome would apply on a global scale...