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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
The federal government routinely awards contracts to companies with
histories of misconduct, including
…
contract fraud and other
violations. POGO believes that providing this website will help to
improve contracting decisions and increase public knowledge of how
the government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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Complicity in the “Ogoni 9” Executions
The widows of four Nigerian activists executed in 1995 filed a civil action in the Netherlands alleging complicity by Shell in their husbands’ deaths. Their husbands were among nine activists from the Ogoni tribe, led by writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, who were hanged for the murder of four political rivals but were allegedly targeted for their involvement in protests against Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary. In 2009, Shell paid $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed in the U.S. by the relatives of Saro-Wiwa and other activists who were tortured or killed by Nigeria’s military government (see Royal Dutch Shell instance, “Human Rights Violations in Nigeria”).
- Misconduct Type
- Human Rights
- Enforcement Agency
- Non-Governmental
- Contracting Party
- None
- Court Type
- Civil
- Disposition
- Pending
- Date of Complaint
- 6/28/2017