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Article

22 Feb 2012

Author:
AFP

Nigerians too poor to sue over corporate abuse: jurists

Victims of environmental disasters or other abuses inflicted by corporations in Nigeria are being denied justice as they are too poor or do not know how to seek legal recourse, jurists said..."Poor rural victims of corporate human rights abuse are usually unaware of their legal rights and don't have the financial resources to file court process, gather information and evidence, and afford legal services," said Carlos Lopez, the International Commission of Jurists' senior legal advisor in a report...[A] Nigerian tribal king filed a lawsuit in a US court on behalf of his people against oil giant Shell, seeking $1 billion in compensation for extensive pollution that sickened the population and damaged their lands...Oil giant Shell had accepted responsibility for the spills, but disputes the magnitude of the pollution...