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MOSOP USA Central Working Committee petition to the United States President and other Worldbodies about the Sixty Two Years of Ogoni Agony

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The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), a mass‐based social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta is the umbrella organization representing about 1.5 million indigenous Ogoni in campaigning for social, economic and environmental justice in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. MOSOP's use of non-violent methods to promote democratic principles assist Ogoni people pursue rights of self-determination in environmental issues, cultural rights and practices for Ogoni people.

WHAT WE DO

MOSOP is the voice of the marginalized minority tribe of Ogoni. MOSOP was founded in 1990 with the mandate to campaign non-violently to:

• Promote democratic awareness;

• Protect the environment of the Ogoni People;

• Seek social, economic and physical development for the region;

• Protect the cultural rights and practices of the Ogoni people; and

• Seek appropriate rights of self-determination for the Ogoni people.

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The Ogoni Kingdom (also known as the Ogonis) are one of the many indigenous peoples in the region of South South Nigeria. They number about 1.5 million people and live in a 404-square-mile (1,050 km²) homeland which they also refer to as Ogoni, or Ogoniland.