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Nnimmo Bassey (born 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 [1] and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades.[2] He was one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment in 2009.[3] In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the Right Livelihood Award,[4] and in 2012 he was awarded the Rafto Prize.[5] He serves on the Advisory Board and is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organization.[6][7]

Bassey was born June 11, 1958. He studied architecture and practiced as an architect "in the public sector for 10 years." He was active on human rights issues in the 1980s when he served as on the Board of Directors of Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization. In 1993, he co-founded a Nigerian NGO known as Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth Nigeria) in order to advocate, educate and organize around environmental human rights issues in Nigeria. Since 1996, Bassey and Environmental Rights Action led Oilwatch Africa and, beginning in 2006, also led the Global South network, Oilwatch International, striving to educate and mobilize communities in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Uganda, South America and in Southeast Asia to "resist destructive oil and gas extraction activities." [8] At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bassey - despite being accredited - was "physically kept out" of a meeting.[9]

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Armed Conflict, Global Warming Intensify Mass Famines

by Nnimmo Bassey February 28, 2017September 23, 2020

Nnimmo Bassey explains why many of the world’s poor are forced to migrate due to policies that allow western industries to continue polluting Story Transcript KIM BROWN: Welcome to The Real News Network in Baltimore. I’m Kim Brown. More than $4 billion is needed by the end of March to help nearly 20 million people […]

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Climate Change-Induced Droughts in Africa Spawn Food Shortages, Mass Child Malnutrition

by Nnimmo Bassey January 17, 2017September 23, 2020
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By Ignoring Fossil Fuel Extraction, the Paris Agreement is Doomed to Failure

by Nnimmo Bassey May 23, 2016September 23, 2020
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International

Climate Change-Fueled Droughts Pushing Africa to the Brink

by Nnimmo Bassey May 23, 2016September 23, 2020
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International

The Roots of Nigeria’s Chaos

by Nnimmo Bassey May 6, 2014September 23, 2020

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