The
United Nations Human Rights Council sitting in Geneva, has passed a resolution
to hold transnational companies, especially in the oil and gas sector,
accountable for environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria, and anywhere
in the world that they operate.
The
Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Dr.
Godwin Ojo, disclosed this at a press briefing in Lagos.
Ojo
said the Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted against Transnational
Corporations’ TNC voluntary mechanisms and instead voted for an International
legally binding mechanism to regulate the activities of TNCs relating to the
protection of human rights.
The
victory, Ojo noted, marks another
