Earth Trusteeship Right Livelihood Lund Dialogue 2024 with Mr Nnimmo Bassey

The dialogue will commence with an initial conversation between Mr Bassey and Mr Peter Lundberg, Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, RWI, whose prior experience includes working as UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria.

This dialogue will bring together several respected colleagues from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Right Livelihood Foundation, Global Campus of Human Rights, Earth Trusteeship Working Group and young leaders representing UPF Lund. 

The discussion is cofacilitated by Nikita Lourenco Calling, RWI, and researcher David O’Byrne, LUCSUS.

The event is organised by RWI in collaboration with LUCSUS. 

No registration needed for physical participation. 

This event is supported through the Global Campus of Human Rights - Right Livelihood Laureate Activity Fund.

Follow online on zoom

The dialogue can be followed online on zoom, no prior registration needed. Access the event by clicking on the link below. 

Link to zoom meeting for the event 

About Nnimmo Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmental activist, author, and poet. He has been a prominent figure in human rights advocacy since the 1980s, serving on the Board of Directors of Nigeria’s Civil Liberties Organization between 1993 and 1999. His passion for campaigning against oil damage caused to Nigerian communities and across sub-tropical African countries led him to co-found Environmental Rights Action (ERA) in 1993, where he served as Executive Director for two decades. Since 1996, Nnimmo became the Steering Committee Member of Oilwatch International to mobilize communities in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, and Uganda, as well as South American and Southeast Asian countries to resist destructive oil and gas activities. His tireless dedication to access to climate justice led him to devote more time to growing a new think-tank and advocacy organization called Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), of which he has been the director since 2013.

His aspiring works on environmental activism and access to climate justice for African communities led him to become Time’s Magazine Heroes of the Environment in 2009. In addition, Nnimmo was named a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award in 2010, and in 2012, he was also awarded the Rafto Human Rights Prize. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of York, United Kingdom, in 2019. In his spare time, Nnimmo also wrote more than 10 books spanning genres from architecture to environment and poetry.