Environmental Rights Action (ERA)

Organization name

Environmental Rights Action (ERA)

Organization link

http://www.eraction.org/

Organization type

NGO

Country

Nigeria

Current focus/area

Advocacy

Human rights

Ecosystems

Corporate accountability

Health

Democracy

Energy

Extractives

Food Sovereignty

Forests

Biodiversity

Description/notes

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria is a Nigerian advocacy group dedicated to the defence of the Human ecosystem in terms of human rights. They are the Nigerian chapter of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI). The organisation is dedicated to the defence of the human ecosystem in terms of human rights and to the promotion of environmentally responsible governmental, commercial, community and individual practices in Nigeria through the empowerment of local people.

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Compendium source

Signatory of the People's’ Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival

9° 4' 55.20" N, 8° 40' 31.08" E