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Digital Security for Civic Actors

As a human rights defender, being safe and aware is an integral part of campaigns, advocacy and engagements. This awareness provides a great deal of confidence in our content and information source. This also helps in improving the efficiency and consistency of human rights campaigns and advocacy across Nigeria. The Media Awareness and Justice Initiative sees safety and digital security as key ingredients of needed for the actualization of social and environmental justice.

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Oil in our Creeks

Women lives and Livelihoods are severely affected during environmental disasters such as crude oil spills and environmental pollution. In May 2017, The Media Awareness and Justice Project Partnered with Aljazeera News, Sustainability International and Ventures Africa to develop a virtual reality film in the Niger Delta on key impacts of the August 2008 crude oil spills  and artisanal refining on the biodiversity, lives and livelihood of people living in Bodo community, Gokona Local Government Area, Rivers State.

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Human Rights Theatre Outreach

The Human Rights Theatre Outreach: a utensil for change and community sensitization in Rivers State,aims at using theatre performances such as theatre art presentations, drama features and screening of human and environmental rights documentaries to strengthen and promote community perspective and stakeholder interactions on the impact of pollution on the environment and the lives of the people of the Niger Delta in Rivers State, Nigeria

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Environmental Pollution - A focus on Ogoni Land

The Niger Delta is one of the most populated natural ecosystems in the world with a land area of 7,386 kilometers. It contains the most extensive mangrove ecosystems in Africa, which covers over 22% of the total forest spread with about 20 million people living along its long coastlines. The mangrove forests in the Niger Delta provide a last line of defense for littoral communities, providing numerous goods and ecosystem services to contiguous populations.

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Vigil commemorating the death of Ken Saro Wiwa - November 2015

Ken Saro Wiwa was a writer, campaigner and environmental rights activist who used non violent means to advocate against the constant contamination of the environment of ogoniland. He was tried by a Kangaroo court which found an innocent man guilty and subsequently hung him and eight others. His legacy lives on, He message lives on, and Justice shall prevail

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