Resources: Conflict, Italy

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On the Ground in Nigeria and Ecuador

6 December 2025

Two recent developments in Africa and Latin America reveal concrete challenges and advances in today's struggles toward a post-oil civilization. 

From Africa, the recently-released Analysis of Nigeria’s 2024 Regulations for the Upstream Petroleum Environmental Remediation Fund exposes the inadequacy of currently-contemplated measures to finance the remediation and rehabilitation of territories subject to pollution resulting from upstream oil and gas operations by transnational companies in the Niger Delta.

Court Judgment on European Oil Companies Found to be Incompatible with OECD Anti-Corruption Convention
HEDA (Nigeria), Re:Common (Italy) and The Corner House

20 October 2022

Italy's recent acquittal of oil multinationals Shell and ENI for bribery in Nigeria has been severely criticised by the body that acts as guardian of one of the main international anti-bribery conventions.  Details of this important case can be found in the attached press release.

A submission on the case co-authored by HEDA, a Nigerian human rights and anti-corruption group; Re:Common, an Italian non-governmental organization and The Corner House is also available above.