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Demand Dignity Stall Urges Shell to Clean Up its Act

Published on 5/03/2010
NSW Demand Dignity Network

Ken Welsh and Lia Wettig demand attention at Marrickville Markets

On Sunday 21 February, the NSW Demand Dignity Network held a stall at the Marrickville Organic Markets.

According to convener Ken Welsh, it was a great day for the group, collecting many signatures in support of corporate responsibility for petroleum companies in the Niger Delta and distributing several hundred Amnesty Human Rights Defender applications.

“It is a diverse and interesting market with a good target audience for the AI message” believes Ken, who is keen to repeat the stall at a later date.

The oil spills, waste dumping and gas flaring in Niger Delta, complete with the social, environmental and political upheaval attached, are particularly close to home for Jude Ezeme, a Nigerian member of the group who is intimately acquainted with the politically and economically driven corruption so prevalent in the region.

Jude’s first hand experience and bottomless passion regarding this issue is an absolute asset to the group and served them very well at the Marrickville Markets.

The stall provided the public with the opportunity to call on Shell’s Chief Executive, Mr. Peter Voser, to make a public commitment to cleaning up Shell’s operations in the Niger Delta.

The Demand Dignity campaign is adament that every person, everywhere in the world, has a basic right to an adequate standard of living: the right to food, water, housing, health and education.

The human rights abuses suffered by Nigerians living in the oil producing areas of the Niger Delta pose serious and indisputable health concerns and force them daily to drink, cook with and wash in oil polluted water. They eat fish contaminated with oil and other toxins and the land they use for farming is being destroyed.

Tell shell to clean up its act in Niger Delta now.

Visit the NSW Demand Dignity Network webpage for more information regarding the Demand Dignity campaign and how you can get involved with the NSW Demand Dignity Network.

Kobe at Demand Dignity Stall