Dedicated to the defense of human ecosystem in terms of human rights and to the promotion of environmentally responsible governmental, commercial, community and individual practice in Nigeria through the empowerment of local people.

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria is a Nigerian advocacy group dedicated to the defence of the Human ecosystem in terms of human rights. ERA/FoEN is the Nigerian chapter of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI). ERA is also the coordinating NGO for the Oilwatch International as well as the host of the secretariat of the Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI).ERA coordinates NGO for the Nigerian Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA).
The organization's committed struggles for environmental human rights has won it recognition through awards such as Sophie Prize (1998) for excellence and courage in the struggle for environmental Justice and the Bloomberg Award for Tobacco control activism.

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