CYBERCRIME BILL : RECREATING AN ORWELLIAN NIGERIA?
On Tuesday 24 February 2015, a bill, Cybercrime Bill passed second reading at the House of Representative – the lower legislative arm in...
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- Feb 20, 2015
- 2 min
LAWYERS COME TOGETHER TO PROVIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO KEY POPULATIONS AND VULNERABLE GROUPS
Volunteer Lawyers across 23 states in Nigeria came together in Abuja between the 2nd to 6th of February 2015 to educate themselves on the...
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- Jan 22, 2015
- 3 min
ABUJA ACCORD: TOWARDS A PEACEFUL ELECTIONS 2015
By ELVIS-WURA TOWOLAWI Election is an indispensable factor that validates democracy and when considered free and fair – confers...
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- Jan 16, 2015
- 3 min
I am profoundly BAGA! By Carlos Sanvee
I am Baga. I am an African. And it concerns me – all of this madness and mayhem. I am Charlie second to being Baga. Yet the eyes of the...
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- Jan 16, 2015
- 3 min
Je suis Baga! by Ian Taylor
Yesterday, on January 11, 2015, the world witnessed an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity in Paris. In an extraordinary coming...
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- Jan 15, 2015
- 2 min
MOUNTING IDPs- A RISING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
By Elvis-wura Towolawi Recently, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosed that it has on record 981, 416 Internally...
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- Jan 14, 2015
- 5 min
Charlie Hebdo attack and global reaction highlights critical importance of Raba plan of Action
by Andrew Smith, Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19 Identifying and understanding the contours of that relationship has always been a deeply...
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- Jan 10, 2015
- 2 min
A PLEA FOR WASILAT TASI’U
By Elvis-Wura Towolawi Take this as an unofficial allocotus, but we cannot turn a blind eye to a social sore that’s fast festering. A...
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- Jan 10, 2015
- 3 min
POLICE BRUTALITY ON ILAJE STUDENTS – QUESTIONS FOR DEMOCRACY
By Elvis-Wura Towolawi One of the hallmarks and pillars; nay, benefits of a virile democracy is the leverage given to the citizenry to...
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- Jan 10, 2015
- 2 min
PARIS ATTACK: A BLOW TO FREE EXPRESSION.
By Elvis-wura Towolawi The recent attack in Paris on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebd by some extremist elements has left 12...
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- Jan 6, 2015
- 7 min
Election Monitors List Threats To Nigeria’s 2015 Elections
President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to take decisive action against troublemakers before, during and after the 2015 general elections....
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- Jan 6, 2015
- 8 min
POLICE PARTISANSHIP: BAD OMEN FOR 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE SURVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
Being a Press Release By NOPRIN NOPRIN is a network of 46 civil society organisations spread across Nigeria and committed to promoting...
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- Jan 4, 2015
- 6 min
10 things we found out because of Freedom of Information
Credits: BBC The Freedom of Information Act came in 10 years ago. It’s led to the unearthing of a trove of facts. Ten years ago, thanks...
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- Dec 30, 2014
- 5 min
Nigerian Gay activist Bisi Alimi speaks on living with HIV and how he was nearly killed for being ga
In an interview with NPR.com, Nigerian Gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi, who was the first person to come out as gay on Nigerian TV,...
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- Dec 29, 2014
- 1 min
.Nominations now open for 11th Front Line Defenders Award for HRDs at Risk
Front Line Defenders is currently accepting nominations for the Eleventh Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk...
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- Dec 29, 2014
- 5 min
COMBATTING GLOBAL RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 by Marc Limon, Nazila Ghanea and Hilary Power It is almost impossible to turn...
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- Nov 8, 2014
- 1 min
The Freedom of Expression Awards honour the word’s most remarkable fighters for free expression: who
2014 Award Winners Held on March 21, 2014 at the Barbican Centre, the 2014 Freedom of Expression Awards honoured these four courageous...
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- Nov 5, 2014
- 4 min
Ebola, Human Rights and Poverty – Making the Links
Alicia Ely Yamin 23 October 2014 The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many lessons, not least for global...
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- Oct 24, 2014
- 14 min
The humanism of Ali Mazrui: His journey to the vision of openness
By Horace G. Campbell Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he...
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- Jun 3, 2014
- 3 min
On Ban of #BringBackOurGirls Protest in Abuja: A Response
The beauty and glory of any democracy lies in the ability of the people to voice dissent–Free expression. In fact, the cardinal pillars...
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