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…