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          Oronto Douglas, born in Okoroba, Nigeria, is a leading human rights attorney and author.

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          Oronto Douglas, Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan and African Scholar in Residence at the International Forum on Globalisation.

          "Oronto Douglas 42 (Aug 2009) is a leading human rights attorney in Nigeria, and served as one of the lawyers on the defence team for the Ogoni leader Ken Saro Wiwa, who was executed by Nigeria's military rulers in 1995.

          Douglas co- founded Africa's foremost environmental movement, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria and has served in the board of several non profit organisations within and outside Nigeria.

          Though he has been arrested and tortured by successive military regimes, he continues to work for and speak out on issues of social justice in a corporate- military state.

          He was the first Niger Delta activist to be hosted by a serving American President – he presented the Niger-Delta struggle at the White House to President Bill Clinton.

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