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...

Written by Okoi Obono-Obla The Freedom of Information Act (FOI), 2011 is a revolutionary piece of legislation that came into force on the...

By Denis Nzioka When India’s Supreme Court – in a surprising ruling – upheld a 150 year old ban on same sex acts among consensual adults,...

“Sorry if I arrived late and I haven’t been able to follow your talk, but I left my headset for interpretations in another room.” Thus...

The Nigeria Parliament (Senate and house of Reps) has reached an advanced stage to pass a bill that seeks to criminalise the use of...

27th February, 2014, NGOs the world over gathered at Helsinki, Finland; to mark this year’s world NGO day. At this gathering, one of its...

James Murombedzi The environment is taking center stage in local, national and global discourse and policies. This increasing focus is...

Mahmood Mamdani To those who are tempted to turn human rights into a crusade, and thus become fundamentalists of the neoliberal era. I...

By Taylor Walker / 25 February, 2014 Rommy Mom is Nigeria’s David fighting the Goliath of a dysfunctional government. Mom, president of...

……Laz Aule Lawyers Alert and the Executive Committee of the Mbayion Community met on the 13th of February 2014, to review and analyze the...

PRESS RELEASE BY LAWYERS ALERT Lawyers Alert views with concern the Gishiri village mob action led by one Pastor Blaze wherein he...

The outpouring of outrage and counter-rage surrounding the passage of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Law 2013 in Nigeria which...

Horrific abuses in the north by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and the Nigerian security forces’ heavy-handed response to this...

……Elvis-Wura Towolawi The long awaited revolution—of the mind, not of arms has begun; and its force is mobile, borne on the jet of...

Press Release – Avocats Sans Frontières France / Lawyers Without Borders France Abuja, February 11, 2014 Following a successful three...

11th February 2014 The SAY NO CAMPAIGN–NIGERIA is a platform of non-governmental organizations, media, labour, organized private sector,...