UN FORUM SERIES – rhetoric of corporate responsibility is not enough: corporations must walk the walk, not just talk the talk

This post was contributed by Katie Redford, Co-Founder and Director of EarthRights International. Twenty years ago this month, the Nigerian military regime executed the environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Ken was a remarkable and charismatic leader of the Ogoni tribe in the Niger Delta who led his people’s opposition to the pollution and abuse that Royal Dutch Petroleum was causing in their territory.