COMMUNITIES, RIGHTS AND GENDER (CRG) DYNAMICS AND APPROACH IN ENDING TB.
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Globally, women are disproportionately affected by violence, harmful patriarchal practices, forced isolation and other forms of discrimination – and this harmful impact is often compounded by poverty and other vulnerabilities. While everyone is entitled to live a life free from discrimination, women and girls are among the most vulnerable groups to abuse and harassment and have limited access to adequate health care. A right-based and gender-sensitive TB response is both an ethical imperative and a pillar of public health.
LAWYERS ALERT ON SCARCITY OF NEW NAIRA NOTES
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Lawyers Alert frowns at the current hardships being experienced by the people of Nigeria with regard to issues arising from the redesigned naira notes. With the current scarcity of the notes and the inflation rate at a 17-year high of 21.09% that has resulted to soaring prices of virtually everything; it is difficult to appreciate the statement credited to the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele that “the new notes will bring the hoarded currencies back into the banking system and help the apex bank to regain control of the money being used in the country”.
LAWYERS ALERT DECRIES ARREST OF HOMELESS PERSONS AND DEMOLITION OF PROPERTIES IN ABUJA METROPOLIS
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Lawyers Alert notes with alarm the FCT Administration’s Joint Task Force’s actions over the last couple of weeks which seek to criminalise conduct related to the performance of life-sustaining activities targeted at the indigents within Abuja metropolis. These actions involve the arbitrary arrest of homeless persons and persons found loitering within the metropolis and the demolition of homes and business premises including motor parks. Just last week, about 480 homeless persons were arrested within the Abuja metropolis.
ON THE GRUESOME KILLING OF DEBORAH YAKUBU
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The stoning and subsequent burning of the body of the 25-year-old Miss Deborah Yakubu, a 200-Level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto by some Muslim youths over allegations of blasphemy still leave a lot of Nigerians in shock. The problem was said to have started when Miss Deborah allegedly expressed certain displeasure over the use of her class WhatsApp group for a purpose different from the one for which it was created. Some of her Muslim course mates who were said to be angered by her comments on the platform allegedly asked her to apologize but that she refused. Seeing this, the mates mobilized other youths from outside the school that attacked, killed and even set Miss Yakubu’s remains ablaze.
FREE LEGAL SERVICES FOR PERSONS AFFECTED BY TUBERCULOSIS IN LAGOS AND THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, NIGERIA.
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Lawyers Alert is a legal and human rights organization that provides free legal services for vulnerable groups especially when they suffer violations associated with their health rights.
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Lawyers Alert in partnership with Stop TB Partnership under the Challenge Facility for Civil Society is carrying out an intervention “Implementing the Nigeria TB Legal Assessment to Mobilize and Promote the use of the Law and Courts among Lawyers and People Affected by TB (PATB)”.
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In this regard, Lawyers Alert is now rendering free legal services to PATBs in Lagos and the FCT, who require legal assistance as a result of the breach of their rights owing to TB.
PRESS RELEASE BY A GROUP OF NIGERIA NGOS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS ON THE EXPULSION AND EJECTION OF MASTER X FROM COMMAND SECONDARY SCHOOL, SULEJA, ON ACCOUNT OF HIS HIV STATUS
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A 12-year-old male student of the Command Secondary School, Suleja, Niger State has been expelled by the school authorities on account of his HIV status. The boy (name withheld) was born HIV positive but has been on the necessary treatment and care from birth.
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Master X (Not Real Name) who lives with his single mother and a sister in Abuja was offered provisional admission into the Command Secondary School in Kaduna in 2019 where he completed J.S.S. 1 and the 1St Term of his J.S.S. 2. Owing to the insecurity and other risks associated with the Abuja-Kaduna Road, Master X’s mother decided to seek a transfer for him from Kaduna to the Command Secondary School in Suleja.
LAWYERS ALERT PARTNERS WITH THE OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA (OSIWA) TOWARDS THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF PETTY ACTS IN NIGERIA.
Lawyers Alert is pleased to announce its partnership with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) under a renewal project titled “Deepening efforts at Decriminalization of Petty Offences in Nigeria”.
The project seeks to ensure criminal justice, sanction and law reform aimed at decriminalization of petty offences in Nigeria.
The overall project objective is a criminal justice system devoid of petty offences in Nigeria.
LAWYERS ALERT PARTNERS WITH STOP TB TOWARDS RIGHTS PROTECTION OF PERSONS AFFECTED BY TB
GRANT AWARD NOTIFICATION
Lawyers Alert is pleased to announce its partnership with Stop TB Partnership under the Challenge Facility for Civil Society in a project titled “Implementing the Nigeria TB Legal Assessment to Mobilize and Promote the use of the Law and Courts among Lawyers and People Affected by TB (PATB)”.
ABUJA HIGH COURT DENOUNCES VIOLATION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
12 August 2021, Abuja – On 5 August 2021, the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Abuja Division, per Justice Maha, handed down a groundbreaking decision against law enforcement agencies that violated women’s rights.
The Applicants were among 71 women who were arrested at various public spaces in Abuja between 17 and 26 April 2019. The arrests were carried out by the FCTA Joint Task Team comprising the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Securities, and Civil Defence Corps,
LAWYERS ALERT AND PARTNERS SEEK TO STRENGTHEN LAWS ON THE VULNERABLE POPULATION THROUGH THE ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
Lawyers Alert, a human rights organization has been working on issues of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and other vulnerable populations over the years. Findings and Statistics from surveys and our online SRHR monitoring tool have revealed how states have been reluctant to domesticate and enforce progressive SRHR laws passed by the National assembly.
RE: KILLINGS AT THE ABABGENA INTERNAL DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP
Lawyers Alert condemns in the strongest terms the attack by gunmen believed to be Herdsmen on an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp situated in Abagena Community in Benue State. The attack which led to the death of 7 persons and several others wounded is said to have happened on the 27th day of April 2021.
NIGERIA #ENDSARS PROTESTS AND THE AFTERMATH
Position of Lawyers Alert
Lawyers Alert condemns in the strongest terms the use of live ammunition on protesters who were only armed with national flags and the national anthem and the consequent loss of lives of innocent and defenseless Nigerians in their prime. No lawful and democratic society condones extrajudicial killings in any form. Every person has a right to live and such a right cannot be taken away by anyone except in accordance with the law.
WELCOME BARR. PEACE ADEBOLA OKESHOLA
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Lawyers Alert is happy to announce that Peace Adebola Okeshola, a Human Rights Lawyer has joined Lawyers Alert as our Legal Officer. Lawyers Alert cannot be more pleased of having Peace join us.
COVID-19: DECONGESTION OF NIGERIAN PRISONS LAWYERS ALERT TO ESTABLISH IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING TEAMS
Following the resolution of the Federal Government of Nigeria to decongest Correctional Centres in the face of the COVD-19 pandemic, Lawyers Alert will alongside like-minded CSOs, engage the Presidential Committee for the Decongestion of the Correctional Centers, Federal and State Attorneys General, including Chief Judges and State Governors in ensuring the prompt implementation of this policy. Prisoners to benefit from this decision according to the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami SAN
LAWYERS ALERT DATA ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH PETTY OFFENSES
Following the resolution of the Federal Government of Nigeria to decongest Correctional Centres in the face of the COVD-19 pandemic, Lawyers Alert will alongside like-minded CSOs, engage the Presidential Committee for the Decongestion of the Correctional Centers, Federal and State Attorneys General, including Chief Judges and State Governors in ensuring the prompt implementation of this policy. Prisoners to benefit from this decision according to the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami SAN
LAWYERS ALERT SUES THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL/MINISTER FOR JUSTICE OVER NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF HIV WORKPLACE POLICY BY EMPLOYERS IN NIGERIA
Lawyers Alert is happy to announce that Peace Adebola Okeshola, a Human Rights Lawyer and strong Advocate of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) has joined Lawyers Alert as our Legal / Reproductive Rights Officer. Lawyers Alert cannot be more pleased of having Victor join us.
Victor read Law at the Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, and was called to Bar in 2008 upon his successful graduation at the Nigeria Law School. Victor will lead Lawyers Alert minority rights program and will work from our Head office in Makurdi.
From all of us at Lawyers Alert this is welcoming Victor to the family.
WELCOME BAR VICTOR EBOH
Lawyers Alert is happy to announce that Victor Eboh, a Human Rights Lawyer and strong Advocate of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) has joined Lawyers Alert as our Legal / Reproductive Rights Officer.
NIGERIA INDUSTRIAL COURT PASSES JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE PRACTICE OF UNINFORMED TESTING OF EMPLOYEES AND TERMINATION ON GROUNDS OF HIV.
Mr. X. was employed as a Guard and posted to the U.S Embassy. His employment was terminated after he was made to undergo uninformed testing by his employees. He was referred to Lawyers Alert by the Network of Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) for Legal Assistance.
LAWYERS ALERT PRESS RELEASE. BENUE KILLINGS: BEYOND THE CONDEMNATIONS; MATTERS ARISING
Billows of smoke, lifeless bodies, charred cars, and deserted streets best describe the scenarios in Buruku, Ukum, and, to a lesser degree, Kwande Local Government Areas recently attacked in Benue State of North Central Nigeria. For some time now, the people of Benue have been under heavy attacks from different fronts ranging from militia herdsmen, marauding gunmen, and other sources in between. An estimated 200 lives have been lost with many more maimed or wounded. This situation has left the people, especially Women and Children, as the main victims of these unfortunate attacks
BENUE: TROUBLING SIGNS AND NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTIONS
In March 2017, the local government areas of Buruku and Ukum in Benue state were attacked by hundreds of well-armed and well-coordinated gunmen arriving in vehicles and motorcycles. Each attack took the people of the area and security agents totally unawares and scores of lives, mostly those of women and children were needlessly lost. Speculations about the attacks range from suggestions that the killings were the aftermath of aggrieved herdsmen to intra-ethnic bickering to external attacks from a neighboring state.
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