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...

Sometime weeks ago, precisely on 20th March 2014 the World marked Happiness Day: a day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate...

Femi Falana (SAN) in this paper he presented at the 2014 Law Week of the Aba Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abia State...

On 15 April 2014, in a judgment which has been widely praised by equal rights activists around the world, the Supreme Court of India held...

The Committee on Devolution of Power whose responsibilities comprises fiscal federalism; revenue sharing; resource control; sharing...

Youth represents strength and stamina; youth symbolizes curiosity and creativity, youth is the picture of the future and any country and...

9th April 2014, New York There are 10 core human rights treaties that set out the fundamental rights to which all people are entitled....

The National Conference was inaugurated by the Nigeria Government to redefine and redeem Nigeria through seeking consensus ALL issues to...

BEING A PRESS RELEASE BY LAWYERS ALERT For Decades, the Mbayion community, located in Gboko local government area of Benue State, home to...

The world on Monday 24th march 2014 was shocked when an Egyptian trial court, sitting in the central city of Minya, handed down death...