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7 Sep 2005

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BBC

Rights fear over giant oil scheme

The Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline contract may impair the countries' ability to protect farmers, fishermen and others affected, Amnesty International says...An ExxonMobil spokeswoman said: "The government of Chad and the World Bank put in place an unprecedented Revenue Management Plan (RMP) for the allocation of oil revenues, including monitoring by representatives of civil society...A spokeswoman for the World Bank said...it shared Amnesty's concerns about the human rights record in Chad and Cameroon. She said it had helped finance the project as a way of providing revenues to support economic development and reduce poverty in Chad.

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