After legal battles lasting nearly fourteen years, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to pay a $15.5 million out-of-court settlement. Plaintiffs from the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta have successfully held Shell accountable for complicity in human rights atrocities committed against the Ogoni people in the 1990s, including the execution of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The legal action is one of a very few brought under the U.S. Alien Tort Statute that have been successfully resolved in favor of the plaintiffs. The settlement includes establishment of a $5 million dollar trust to benefit local communities in Ogoni.
– from priceofoil
– more shell is guilty of much more than human rights abuses
– more remembersarowiwa.com
