2014 Award Winners Held on March 21, 2014 at the Barbican Centre, the 2014 Freedom of Expression Awards honoured these four courageous...

Alicia Ely Yamin 23 October 2014 The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many lessons, not least for global...

By Horace G. Campbell Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he...

Lawyers Alert, LA, recently visited and met with  the management of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, in Abuja over  the...

Being a Press Release by the Doing Democracy Movement, DDM. DDM have received with utter shock the untenable display of might as right,...

Aniebo Nwamu Those who, from the outset, described the National Conference as a jamboree must be laughing by now. In its last days,...

It started mildly, before one could realize, it had gone beyond proportions. The waters of River Benue had over flown it’s banks into...

Rommy Mom The President of Lawyers Alert, Rommy Mom, represents the civil society at the ongoing national conference. He once stood on a...

To many, the internet is a ‘no man’s land’ with different association exercising varying control over the web space; the United States...

This article was posted on March 25, 2014 at indexoncensorship.org By Morgan Meaker This month, British charity Maslaha launched the...

By Alice Kanengoni, 22 May 2014 First published in Allafrica For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used the world over as...

The beauty and glory of any democracy lies in the ability of the people to voice dissent–Free expression. In fact, the cardinal pillars...

“Soldiers are not what frightens Shekau and his gang, Boko Haram. What frightens them is a girl with a book” – Laurent Duvillier It’s...

By Rommy Mom That Primary Schools in Benue have been closed owing to industrial actions by teachers for nearly 7 months is no news. What...

By Alice Kirkland The wording of Nigeria’s recent anti-gay marriage law is misleading and has provoked a spike in hate crime towards the...

Human Rights Special Procedures: Determinants of Influence by Marc Limon and Ted Piccone The United Nations’ independent human rights...

Staff of Index on Censorship and Rommy Mom Esq of Lawyers Alert give voice to the Campaign #BringBackOurGirls #Chibok

May 17 2014 The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia provides an opportunity to reaffirm that the rights of LGBT people...

Following the abduction of the nearly 300 School girls at Chibok by Boko Haram and their lily livered Shecow, sorry Shekau, women largely...

by Eze Onyekpere Nigeria is under siege; the people are distraught and hope seems to be a scarce commodity in the land. No arm of...

The below posting has practically no relation to the law and articles on Lawyers Alert Blog. However, with the definition of politics,...

The recent abduction of over 234 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State during their S.S.C.E Exams by...

Courtesy Punch Newspapers of 3rd May 2014 Mom | credits: File copy Rommy Mom, a legal practitioner is a civil rights activist and a...

……Rommy Mom When I was informed of my membership of the National Conference, alias Confab, two thoughts hit me: the constitutionality of...