Media Awareness and Justice Initiative - Yes Please

Digital Security for Civic Actors

admin — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:51:17 +0000

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.

Oil in our Creeks

administrator — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:22:38 +0000

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.

Human Rights Theatre Outreach

administrator — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:25:38 +0000

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

Environmental Pollution - A focus on Ogoni Land

administrator — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:07:06 +0000

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.

Vigil commemorating the death of Ken Saro Wiwa - November 2015

administrator — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:36:12 +0000

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

Ken Saro Wiwa Celebration 2014

administrator — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:26:11 +0000

In 1990, Saro-Wiwa began devoting most of his time to human rights and environmental causes, particularly in Ogoniland. He was one of the earliest members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), which advocated for the rights of the Ogoni people.

Chicoco Film and Drama Festival

administrator — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:57:50 +0000

This is a project documentation of the Chicoco Film and drama festival, which was supported by the Prince Claus Funds (PCF) and other local and international organizations. The project focused on creating awareness among local Niger delta communities on alternative means of advocacy that are saustainable and non violent in nature and execution.

VIDEO: Whose Waterfronts?

administrator — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:04:46 +0000

This video was made in partnership with life-long residents of the Afikpo waterfront in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria who participated in our trainings and who were equipped with camera-enabled cell phones. The video represents a maturation of the Media for Justice Project towards more participant-made co-productions. Our view is that the more people equipped and trained to make media in their communities, the more their ideas, aspirations, and takes on life will be shared and heard.

VIDEO: Land grabbing and Militarization in Ogoni

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:44:32 +0000

On June 12th, Goteh Keenam and Dambani Kuenu, two young Ogoni men from Zor-Sogho community in Rivers state, Nigeria were shot dead by policemen. The two were protesting ongoing attempts by the State government to smuggle the Bori Camp Military Barracks, which houses the Second Amphibious Brigade in Port Harcourt into Ogoni territory.

Sogho Children Speak Out Against Land Grabbing

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:38:44 +0000

Children from the Ogoni Community of Sogho in Khana LGA, Rivers State speak out against the government's plans to take land in their community.

The Rivers government is claiming that the land will be used for a mechanized banana plantation, but this is at odds with the fact that military surveyors were sent to survey the land, lending credence to the rumor that the real objective is to re-site the Bori Camp barracks in Ogoniland