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,...

CENTRE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION (a.k.a Transition Monitoring Group) ‘A Coalition of Human Rights & Civil Society Organizations’ A Communiqué...

Nearly three years after violence in Cote d’Ivoire claimed the lives of over three thousand civilians and displaced hundreds of...

The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in Africa, Mrs ReineAlapini-Gansou, has taken note of the promulgation on 13 January...

By Jaye Gaskia In the last few days the FGN has released its working document for the convening of the National Conference. We now know...

In what can be described as a first encouraging step for Avocats Sans Frontières France, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice on the...

By Professor Michael O’Flaherty and Marc Limon In 2005, the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, presented plans for...

The Human Rights Council is the main intergovernmental body within the United Nations (UN) system responsible for “promoting universal...

By Fr. Shay Cullen Human Rights Online Philippines By Fr. Shay Cullen Child protection police working with Interpol and Europol have...

Preamble The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) with support from the Open Society Initiative for West...