Tag: Human Rights
Military should have apologised after coup plot u-turn – Falana
He said the military misled Nigerians by first denying the existence of a coup plot, only to later announce that…
Human rights in crisis: Addressing the challenges facing Nigeria (3)
In many instances, the real facts of some cases that have found themselves in the dockets of the criminal courts…
Human rights in crisis: Addressing the challenges facing Nigeria
The United Nations General Assembly established Human Rights Day in 1950 to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of…
Human rights in crisis: Addressing the challenges facing Nigeria (1)
The concept of rights, as is typical with most legal concepts, is as multifaceted and poly-dimensional in meaning as there…
Mainstreaming human rights in the law making process (1)
The non-justiciable Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) on the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy…
Group asks Muslims to protect Nigerian constitution
A group, Al Ikhwaan Fillahi Muslim Society of Nigeria South-East and South-South, has urged Muslims to protect the rights of…
Nigerian Govt persistently assaulted the rule of law in 2019 – NBA
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the “executive misbehaviour and high-handedness” of the federal government in 2019.
DPRK slams U.S. over remarks on human rights
The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday lashed out at the U.S. criticism of…
Reminiscences: For Olisa Agbakoba and the Human Rights Campaigners
By Babafemi Ojudu I am writing this a bit late as my June 12 tribute to Olisa Agbakoba. I read…
Human Rights Group resolves 516 disputes in 2018
The Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Center in Ebonyi, says it resolved 516 various disputes while 127 cases were still…
EFCC, NHRC pledge better relationship in protection of human rights
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, have pledged to further strengthen their…
UN shuts human rights office in Burundi
Burundi has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, the U.N. human rights…
Hypocrisy: Saudi minister talks about human rights
A Saudi minister told the United Nations on Wednesday it would cooperate with its human rights mechanisms, on the other…
UN to carry out human rights review
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights is to be carried out by UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) to…
Human rights in Morocco deteriorate in 2017, 2018 – Group
Morocco’s most influential rights group Association for Human Rights (AMDH) has deplored what it said was a surge in political…
Nigerian Army establishes human rights desk
The 82 Division of the Nigerian Army in Enugu State says it has established human rights desks in all its…
Police ordered to pay N10m for violation of human rights
The Federal High Court, Maitama Abuja, on Monday ordered the Nigeria Police Force, to pay N10million as compensation to one…
Buhari is serious about protection of human rights – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the protection of human rights is a cardinal objective…
‘Human rights under attack’ – UN warns
The world is sliding back on human rights and its principles are under attack in all corners of the globe,…
Cameroonian Govt. urged to respect human rights
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has appealed to the Government of Cameroon to respect human rights of…
Human rights: U.S. tasks Nigeria, Cameroon on Anglophone detainees
The U.S. Government has asked the Nigerian and Cameroonian authorities to respect the human rights of the 47 Anglophone detainees…
Prison reforms: Lawmakers move to decongest prisons
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Interior, Human Rights, Federal Judiciary, FCT Judiciary and Police Affairs to…
U.S. Criticises Sudan Human Rights
The U.S. said on Friday it was “very concerned” about Sudan’s human rights record, which was supposed to have improved…
UN partners with Microsoft on Human Rights
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday announced a “landmark” five-year partnership with Microsoft.
Indigenous peoples abused by govts – UN expert
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, said the rights of indigenous peoples around…
IGP: We are committed to protection of human rights
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, on Tuesday restated the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to the protection…
NHRC unveils manual to unify handling of human rights abuse complaints
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Tuesday in Abuja, presented to the public its Complaint Treatment Procedure Manual to…
UN chief calls for a future of tolerance and human rights for all
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the international community to learn from the lessons of the genocide in…
I-G restates police commitment to protect human rights
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has again restated that the police are committed to protect all citizens and…
DIG directs police officers to respect human rights
The Nigeria Police Force has directed its personnel to promote and respect the rights of citizens in the discharge of…