- Nnimmo Bassey
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Nnimmo Bassey with his Right Livelihood Award
Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmentalist activist and poet, elected chair of Friends of the Earth International[1] and Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action. He is one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009.[2] In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize). [3]
Contents
Work
At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bassey - despite being accredited - was "physically kept out" of a meeting.[4]
Publications
- To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa Publisher: Fahamu (Jul 1 2010) ISBN 1-906387-53-2 ISBN 978-1-906387-53-2
- Trade and human rights in the Niger Delta
- SHELL'S FPSO poses serious dangers
See also
References
- ^ http://www.eraction.org/news/139-nnimmo-bassey-elected-chair-of-friends-of-the-earth-international-
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924153_1924211,00.html The Time - Heroes of the Environment 2009
- ^ "Right Livelihood Award: 2010 - Nnimmo Bassey". http://www.rightlivelihood.org/bassey.html. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/17/a_naked_form_of_blackmail_naomi
External links
- Copenhagen: Where Africa Took On Obama By Naomi Klein - December 8th, 2009
- Article from Democracy Now
- Interview in Global Greegrants Fund
- Environment Rights Action, Friends of the earth in Nigeria
- Video of Nnimmo Bassey during the COP15 by The UpTake (Naomi Klein)
- Video: Nigerian Environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Bolivia Climate Conference
- Nnimmo Bassey Wins Right Livelihood Award - video report by Democracy Now!
Categories:- Living people
- Nigerian environmentalists
- Nigerian activists
- Right Livelihood Award laureates
- Friends of the Earth
- Nigerian people stubs
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