Civil and and Political Rights and the International Cultural Rights. The Court finds that Covenant on Economic, considering invoked, including the Universal Declaration of Human all the Social instruments Rights, 29 articles were alleged to have been violated. 92. The success of an application for human rights protection does not depend on the number of provisions or international instruments the applicant invokes as violated. When various articles of different instruments sanction the same rights, the said instruments may, as far as those specific rights are concerned, be considered equivalent. It suffices therefore to cite the one which affords more effective protection to the right allegedly violated. 93. At any rate, it is incumbent upon the Court to shape out the dispute along its essential lines and examine no more than the violations which, in regard to the facts and circumstances of the suit, appear to it to constitute the heart of the grievances brought. 94. For the Court, the heart of the grievances is to be looked for in relation to the facts of the case it considers as established. produced by Amnesty contain well known International facts reported may In that light, although the report be in the public domain by other numerous sources and may (international organisations, the media, etc.), the Court is of the view that this report cannot on its own, alone, be considered as conclusive evidence. The report, as well as other well-known facts, constitutes for the Court a kaleidoscope of elements and indices that may specifically help enlighten it on the actual existence and scope of the problem. In the instant case, the Court upholds as decisive and convincing the facts on which there is agreement among the parties or those on which one of the parties does not raise objection while in a position to do SO. 95. From the submissions of both endowed with arable land and Parties, it has emerged water which the that the Niger Delta is communities use for their social and economic needs; several multinational and Nigerian companies have carried along oil prospection as well as oil exploitation which caused and continue to cause damage to the quality and productivity of the soil and water; 23|Page