1/6 🚨 NEW REPORT by @amnesty.org & partners, Nigeria: Lifting the Lid, exposes how Shell knew its pipelines were unsafe & allowed environmental damage to continue. Then it sold up to avoid $10.9bn in costs to decommission and clean up assets.
Mark Dummett
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Head of the business and human rights team @amnesty - ex HRW, BBC & Reuters. All posts my own.
New - we've seen an extraordinary cache of internal Shell documents relating to pollution in Nigeria and what we've read was shocking www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Nigeria: Shell documents expose ‘basket’ pipeline, ‘missing’ wells and US$10.9bn decommissioning costs as pollution scandal grows
NEW REPORT: Shell documents reveal broken rules, failing infrastructure and unresolved clean-up costs leaving communities in Nigeria to pay the price.
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📢 OUT TOMORROW: @amnesty.org's report, 'Nigeria: Lifting the Lid', which analyses new internal #Shell emails, documents and confidential reviews to reveal a wider human rights scandal than previously reported. Get in touch at press@amnesty.org for embargoed material.
This information is drawn from a cache of previously unreported on internal documents. If you're a journalist or podcaster and interested in knowing more please send me a DM
But in the coming days a coalition of Nigerian and international civil society groups will be a publishing a new report that reveals shocking new information about the operations and decision-making of one of the world's largest companies in Nigeria - Shell plc.
Pollution caused by decades of unregulated oil and gas production in Nigeria has caused one of the world's great environmental and human rights scandals. Having read the headlines about this over the years many people assume they already know all about it - that's there's nothing new to say.
Pollution caused by decades of unregulated oil and gas production in Nigeria has caused one of the world's great environmental and human rights scandals. Having read the headlines about this over the years many people assume they already know all about it - that's there's nothing new to say.
Poor Anthropic. Imagine having your intellectual property illicitly extracted, what kind of company would even do that?
Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.
this @amnesty.org report is a must read!!
Alexander Laufer@alexlaufer.bsky.social · 2mo agoGovernments claim risk profiling systems help identify potential criminals or fraudsters but in practice they reinforce discrimination & inequality. A new @amnesty.org report shows how their use in law enforcement, social security & migration violates human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
🔴 NEW - Cherie Blair’s Charity Received £3.6 million from ExxonMobil The oil major has provided a significant chunk of the foundation’s income. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Cherie Blair’s Charity Received £3.6 million from ExxonMobil
A charity set up by Cherie Blair has received more than £3.6 million from U.S. fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil, DeSmog can reveal. The eponymous Cherie Blair Foundation for Women was founded in 2008 – pr...
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It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoHegseth uses his D-Day anniversary speech in Franch to take veiled shots at NATO and European immigration policies
Don’t believe the hype or the bastards who want to divide us, London is the greatest city in the world. Diversity is its strength & the inclusiveness of the Arsenal community has long represented the very best of it.
Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe best thing about today is everyone from everywhere is here. London at its very best.
These tools rely on extracting data from billions of public online posts and images, often without the knowledge and consent of the individuals appearing in them. Companies have done little to justify this, because they can’t; the current GenAI development paradigm depends on this very infraction.
We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
A great day to be a (red) north Londoner. This is excellent by @tim-stillman.bsky.social arseblog.com/2026/05/ive-...
I've paid my dues
I am happy for my friends and family. Needless to say, Arsenal is a very strong thread that binds us. The club has been in my family for over 100 years- grandparents, parents, siblings, nieces and nep...
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A must watch. 🥹 This belongs to all of us. 🏆 Via Arsenal (IG) 🔴⚪
I visited the oil wells in Bille in the Niger Delta several times in the late 1990s /early 00s for HRW - shocking but sadly not surprising nothing has changed …
Amnesty Business & Human Rights@amnestybhr.bsky.social · 3mo agoBille, Nigeria, faces a serious health emergency. The town is next to abandoned oil & gas infrastructure & since October 2025, methane gas has been bubbling up in rivers & drinking wells near the town. It is suspected that the oil & gas wells are the cause of the leaks. youtube.com/shorts/DCq6N...
The #FifaWorldCup should be about joy, not fear. Unity, not division. Humanity, not cruelty. We’ve made our choice. Have you? ⚽️
"the UAE has earned its place among the ranks of the world’s outlaws": @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on how involvement in war crimes in Sudan is eating away at the UAE's reputation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? | Nesrine Malik
Outrage is mounting about the Gulf country’s complicity in Sudan’s catastrophic civil war – and it might be starting to hit them where it hurts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Proud to be described by the Trump admin as one of the "climate crazed activists" behind Amnesty's latest report on human rights abuses linked to mining in Nevada grist.org/indigenous/r...
Report: Nevada's lithium boom comes at the expense of Indigenous rights
As demand for critical minerals surges, Indigenous leaders and Amnesty International say mining is advancing without tribal consent.
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Everything that is wrong with BBC political coverage in one clip www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Reporters shout questions at ministers leaving No 10
Several ministers were met with a barrage of questions about the PM's future after leaving a cabinet meeting.
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Nevada’s lithium boom cannot come at the cost of Indigenous rights. No energy transition is just without Indigenous Peoples’ consent. New research out now: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Amnesty International's upcoming briefing shows how this lithium boom is being driven forward without the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of affected Indigenous Peoples 📄"We're here to protect Mother Earth" 📅Published: 12 May 2026 📍Live launch in Ottawa on 14 May [3/3] amnesty.ca/event/perspe...
Perspectives from Nevada’s Lithium Highway; an evening with Western Shoshone land defenders and Amnesty International.
Join Amnesty International and Western Shoshone land defenders in Ottawa for a panel on lithium mining, Indigenous rights, and the global energy transition.
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The investigation shows mining companies have staked claims for 100+ lithium projects across western US states, many on or near tribal lands, with projects increasingly fast-tracked by authorities. [2/3]
This weekend's @insideclimatenews.org investigation "How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past" quotes @amnestybhr.bsky.social researcher Alysha Khambay Read the full article here👇 [1/3] insideclimatenews.org/news/0305202...
How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past - Inside Climate News
Companies have staked claims for more than 100 lithium-mine projects. Tribes are among the most affected.
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“Successful for us means that games succeed for everyone, not just for Airbnb, the FIFA president and Donald Trump. Right now, that’s where it’s headed. Somebody needs to stand up and say, ‘No, that’s not how the World Cup should be done’.”
Nick McGeehan@ncgeehan.bsky.social · 3mo agoLA unions threaten World Cup strike citing concerns about ICE. More excellent WC2026 reporting from @adamcrafton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...
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Israel’s brazen interception of Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza sparks fears for 175 arbitrarily detained
Responding to reports that Israeli forces intercepted 22 vessels and detained around 175 crew members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was attempting to break Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver ...
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