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Index Freedom of Expression Awards: Advocacy nominee Rommy Mom
By Taylor Walker / 25 February, 2014 Rommy Mom is Nigeria’s David fighting the Goliath of a dysfunctional government. Mom, president of...
Feb 27, 20142 min read
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GISHIRI VILLAGE MOB ACTION AGAINST DEFENCELESS CITIZENS SUSPECTED TO BE GAYS
PRESS RELEASE BY LAWYERS ALERT Lawyers Alert views with concern the Gishiri village mob action led by one Pastor Blaze wherein he...
Feb 19, 20143 min read
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GAY RIGHTS, THE FAMILY & THE RIGHT OF HUMANITY
The outpouring of outrage and counter-rage surrounding the passage of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Law 2013 in Nigeria which...
Feb 14, 20143 min read
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Avocats Sans Frontières France, renews efforts to curb torture practices in Nigeria.
Press Release – Avocats Sans Frontières France / Lawyers Without Borders France Abuja, February 11, 2014 Following a successful three...
Feb 11, 20141 min read
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In Cote d’ Ivoire Civil Society Leads Efforts To Realise Reparative Justice
Nearly three years after violence in Cote d’Ivoire claimed the lives of over three thousand civilians and displaced hundreds of...
Feb 10, 20144 min read
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ECOWAS Court orders Federal Government and Edo state Government to take Thankgod Ebhos off death row
In what can be described as a first encouraging step for Avocats Sans Frontières France, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice on the...
Feb 5, 20142 min read
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Human rights financing: the UN’s little pillar
By Professor Michael O’Flaherty and Marc Limon In 2005, the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, presented plans for...
Feb 5, 20146 min read
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A Rough Guide to the Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council is the main intergovernmental body within the United Nations (UN) system responsible for “promoting universal...
Feb 5, 20144 min read
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The corporate irresponsibility of the Internet Service Providers
By Fr. Shay Cullen Human Rights Online Philippines By Fr. Shay Cullen Child protection police working with Interpol and Europol have...
Feb 5, 20143 min read
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HIV AND AIDS: COMMUNITY LED INTERVENTIONS, WOMEN AND INFANTS
To effectively meet the growing trend of infections among infants and growing infections in rural Nigeria, Lawyers Alert proposes the...
Jan 29, 20142 min read
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ROMMY MOM FOR INDEX ON CENSORSHIP FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD 2014
Lawyers Alert is pleased to announce that its President, Rommy Mom Esq, is one of four persons shortlisted for the Index Censorship...
Jan 24, 20141 min read
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Nigeria: PARADIGM SHIFT FOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NIGERIAN CSOs
…….Victor TC Anyanwu 2014 marks Nigeria’s 100years of existence, with the evolution of various problems and developmental challenges far...
Jan 7, 20145 min read
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Growing Repression Of Free Speech And Attack On Human Rights Defenders In Nigeria
By Victoria Ohaeri Victoria Ohaeri The growing repression of citizen reporters and advocates that challenge the never-seen-before levels...
Dec 16, 20135 min read
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SEEING FORMER CHILD SOLDIERS AS MORE THAN JUST VICTIMS
Photo: Discharged former Maoist rebels and child soldiers carry their belongings after a ceremony at Rolpa,west of Katmandu, Nepal,...
Dec 10, 20133 min read
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CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
When ELVIS-WURA TOWOLAWI walked into my office and discussed starting a human rights education project in churches in Makurdi, Benue...
Dec 10, 20134 min read
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A new anti-homosexuality law in Nigeria
by Colin Stewart Location of Katsina State in Nigeria. The legislature of Katsina State in northern Nigeria added to that country’s...
Dec 6, 20131 min read
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NIGERIA: SOCIAL MEDIA CRITICS TO GO TO JAIL
The Senate has reached an advanced stage to pass a bill that seeks seven years jail term for social media critics found guilty of...
Dec 4, 20131 min read
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Nigeria and the scourge of modern slavery
– The Punch MORE than two centuries after the obnoxious trade in human beings was officially abolished in the British Empire in 1807,...
Dec 4, 20134 min read
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THE NIGERIA JUDICIARY AND IMPUNITY.
……. Elvis Wura Towolawi Wherever there is power, naked and unrestrained – abuse of same is inevitable. This age- tested philosophy...
Dec 3, 20134 min read
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Crisis in the Central African Republic
Taken from UNA Vancouver “The worst crisis most people have never heard of” – Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the UN. As a community of...
Dec 3, 20131 min read
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