FW: Shell Nigeria Country Director at UMass
Aria Littlhous
From: tamzid chowdhury [mailto:realt...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:12 AM
To: Brian K; David Knuttunen; David Walsh; Ridgely Fuller; Richard Colbath-Hess; Marguerite Rosenthal; Jarib Rahman; James Razsa
Subject: Shell Nigeria Country Director at UMass
Hi!
I have just heard the UMass Boston Conflict resolution department is hosting Shell Nigeria Country Chair. I think it is outrageous that Shell is being given an opportunity to whitewash its criminal record. I am trying to get together some UMass students for a demonstration. However, the event is just a day away, so I am not sure I will be able to find many students to show up. I am wondering if UNAC, Code Pink and others would like to come and participate.
Here is the information I have:
Friends --
Please join us on Wednesday, March 6 at 2:30 pm at UMASS Boston on the 11th floor of the Healey Library to hear Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu, the Country Director for Shell Companies in Nigeria. Mr. Sunmonu will discuss Shell's human development and human security strategies in Nigeria. After intense international criticism in the 1990s of Shell's environmental and human rights impacts in the oil producing regions of Nigeria, the company instituted an array of new human rights, environmental, and local development policies. Central to these efforts have been negotiations with the oil-producing communities themselves over how Shell development aid is to be used (see http://www.shell.com.ng/environment-society/shell-in-the-society/gmou.html). Mr. Sunmonu will review these efforts and discuss the remaining challenges facing the company in terms of its social and environmental impacts in the troubled Niger Delta region. Plenty of time will be available for your questions.
All are welcome, but space is limited, so we ask that you RSVP if you plan to attend to: alexandra...@umb.edu.
We hope you can join us.
Prof. Darren Kew
Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance
Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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