The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Shell to respond to a report by Amnesty International regarding its operations in Nigeria, “Nigeria: Petroleum, pollution and poverty in the Niger Delta”:

• press release & full report [PDF], 30 Jun 2009

Related news items:

• “Shell Disputes Amnesty Report on Nigeria”, Jad Mouwad, New York Times, 2 Jul 2009
• “[Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation] rejects damning Amnesty report”, CNN, 1 Jul 2009

In response, Shell sent the following statement:

• Shell response [DOC], 8 Jul 2009

Amnesty Intl. released the following rejoinder:

• “Nigeria: Shell's response to Amnesty report is disappointing”, 20 July 2009

The Resource Centre invited Shell to provide additional comments.  Shell replied saying to refer to the company’s public webchat on Nigeria.