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ROME, ITALY - APRIL 1: An Italian army doctor dresses in a protective suits before entering the intensive care at Celio Military Polyclinic Hospital (Policlinico Militare Celio), spoke of COVID 1 Spallanzani Hospital, during the Coronavirus emergency, on April 1, 2020, in Rome, Italy. The Italian government continues to enforce the nationwide lockdown measures to control the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
Esther Kiobel outside the tribunal as a Dutch court hear the first arguments in an historic case against Shell, in which the oil giant stands accused of instigating a raft of horrifying human rights violations committed by the Nigerian government against the Ogoni people in the 1990s, on February 12, 2019 in The Hague, Netherlands. Esther Kiobel, Victoria Bera, Blessing Eawo and Charity Levula are suing Shell over what they say is its role in the unlawful arrest, detention and execution of their husbands by the Nigerian military, following a brutal crackdown on Ogoni protests against Shell’s devastating pollution of the region.