Tag: Human rights
Ensure Human Rights Protection, CJN Charges Judicial Officers
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, Monday, charged judicial officers on the need to ensure the protection of human rights. He ... Read More
Lawyers Without Borders To Provide Legal Representation For 85 Victims Of Torture In Ogun
Avocats Sans Frontières France (Lawyers without Borders France) is set to provide legal aid and representation to 85 victims of torture in Ogun State. ASF ... Read More
Human Rights Groups Criticize Sentencing of Nigerian Atheist for Blasphemy
Human rights groups are condemning a Nigerian court's sentencing of an atheist activist to 24 years in prison on charges of blasphemy. Mubarak Bala, 37, ... Read More
SERAP Inaugurates Volunteer Lawyers For Human Rights Causes
A Lagos based human rights and advocacy organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Tuesday, March 22 inaugurated its Volunteer Lawyers’ Network in ... Read More
Why Human Rights Abuse Has Continued Unabated In Nigeria – By FEMI FALANA
No doubt, Nigeria has ratified and enacted a few human rights treaties of the United Nations. Apart from the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ ... Read More
Lawyers Task Police On Human Rights Protection
Also important, he emphasised that the law prohibits the arrest of a person in lieu of another, adding: “The Police are advised to make arrests ... Read More
Senior Lawyer Wants Magistrates, Others To Hear Human Rights Cases
“These lower courts now manned by legal practitioners, are nearer to the grassroots and accessible to the majority of Nigerians as they are situated in ... Read More