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OIL CRISES IN LIVES OF WOMEN - Health, Work, Income, Food, Safe Water, Land, Environment, Rights, Nature & Wildlife, Infertility & Birth Deformities, Survival +

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UNEP - United Nations Environmental Programme

Full Text: http://new.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2649&ArticleID=8827&l=en

Abuja, 4 August 2011 - The environmental restoration of Ogoniland could prove to be the world's most wide-ranging and long term oil clean-up exercise ever undertaken if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and important ecosystems are to be brought back to full, productive health. _____________________________________________________________________

 

Full Article - BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14398659

NIGERIA - Oogoniland Oil Spills Crises - Health Risks & Environment Damage 

 

Boy stands near an abandoned oil well head leaking crude oil, 11 April 2007, in Kegbara Dere, Ogoni Territory

The Ogoni people say their land has been devastated by pollution from the oil industry

 

August 4, 2011 - Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to recover fully from the damage caused by years of oil spills, a long-awaited UN report says.

 

The study says complete restoration could entail the world's "most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up".

 

Communities faced a severe health risk, with some families drinking water with high levels of carcinogens, it said......

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OIL CRISES IN LIVES OF WOMEN - Health, Work, Income, Food, Safe Water, Land, Environment, Rights, Nature & Wildlife, Infertility & Birth Deformities, Survival +

 

Oil slicks, fumes, oil-related anguish, from the Caribbean, to Alaska, to Asia, to Africa, and beyond, can suddenly disrupt and destroy sustainable lives, and often without compensation or restoration.

 

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ISIS International - Women in Action Publication

Women in a Weary World - Climate Change & Women in the Global South

 

http://www.isiswomen.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1351&Itemid=10

 

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Nigeria - Niger River Delta

 

When Blessing Becomes a Curse in the Niger Delta
by Betty Abah