Passage of the HIV/AIDS Anti-Discrimination Law: Matters Arising
By Jerome, Uneje Mary Since the advent of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria in the early 90s, it is estimated that over 3 million people are either...
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Feb 8, 20155 min read
Will Nigerians speak out over the Boko Haram threat in the elections?
As Index on Censorship preps for this year’s Freedom of Expression Awards, one of 2014’s campaigner nominees, Rommy Mom, gives a Nigerian...
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Feb 6, 20153 min read
WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS
Following the release of the names of all the Political Party Candidates cleared to run for the 2015 General Elections, Lawyers Alert’...
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Jan 26, 20153 min read
The Nigeria NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 2014: Snap Review
Nigeria’s National Health Bill was signed into law by the president on December 9, 2014. The Nigerian Senate passed the highly...
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Jan 22, 20153 min read
ABUJA ACCORD: TOWARDS A PEACEFUL ELECTIONS 2015
By ELVIS-WURA TOWOLAWI Election is an indispensable factor that validates democracy and when considered free and fair – confers...
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Jan 16, 20153 min read
I am profoundly BAGA! By Carlos Sanvee
I am Baga. I am an African. And it concerns me – all of this madness and mayhem. I am Charlie second to being Baga. Yet the eyes of the...
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Jan 16, 20153 min read
Je suis Baga! by Ian Taylor
Yesterday, on January 11, 2015, the world witnessed an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity in Paris. In an extraordinary coming...
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Jan 15, 20152 min read
MOUNTING IDPs- A RISING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
By Elvis-wura Towolawi Recently, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosed that it has on record 981, 416 Internally...
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Jan 14, 20155 min read
Charlie Hebdo attack and global reaction highlights critical importance of Raba plan of Action
by Andrew Smith, Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19 Identifying and understanding the contours of that relationship has always been a deeply...
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Jan 14, 20151 min read
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani condemns Baga terror m
We deeply deplore the vicious, ruthless attacks against civilians in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga, where Boko Haram has...
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Jan 14, 20151 min read
Link to Getting your Permanent Voters Card
Still without a voters card? as the elections approaches, try the below link http://voters.inecnigeria.org/static/lgas/ #INEC...
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Jan 10, 20152 min read
A PLEA FOR WASILAT TASI’U
By Elvis-Wura Towolawi Take this as an unofficial allocotus, but we cannot turn a blind eye to a social sore that’s fast festering. A...
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Jan 10, 20153 min read
POLICE BRUTALITY ON ILAJE STUDENTS – QUESTIONS FOR DEMOCRACY
By Elvis-Wura Towolawi One of the hallmarks and pillars; nay, benefits of a virile democracy is the leverage given to the citizenry to...
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Jan 10, 20152 min read
PARIS ATTACK: A BLOW TO FREE EXPRESSION.
By Elvis-wura Towolawi The recent attack in Paris on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebd by some extremist elements has left 12...
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Jan 6, 20157 min read
Election Monitors List Threats To Nigeria’s 2015 Elections
President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to take decisive action against troublemakers before, during and after the 2015 general elections....
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Jan 6, 20157 min read
THE 2015 ELECTION AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM ISSUES
By Otive Igbuzor, PhD Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD) The 2015 General elections...
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Jan 6, 20158 min read
POLICE PARTISANSHIP: BAD OMEN FOR 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE SURVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
Being a Press Release By NOPRIN NOPRIN is a network of 46 civil society organisations spread across Nigeria and committed to promoting...
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Jan 6, 20156 min read
Road Map 2015 Via The Freeedom Of Iinformation ACT
As Nigeria prepares for the 2015 Elections, Seermber Nyager takes a look at the elections from the perspective of the Freedom of...
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Jan 4, 20156 min read
10 things we found out because of Freedom of Information
Credits: BBC The Freedom of Information Act came in 10 years ago. It’s led to the unearthing of a trove of facts. Ten years ago, thanks...
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Dec 30, 20145 min read
Nigerian Gay activist Bisi Alimi speaks on living with HIV and how he was nearly killed for being ga
In an interview with NPR.com, Nigerian Gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi, who was the first person to come out as gay on Nigerian TV,...
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Dec 29, 20141 min read
.Nominations now open for 11th Front Line Defenders Award for HRDs at Risk
Front Line Defenders is currently accepting nominations for the Eleventh Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk...
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Dec 29, 20145 min read
COMBATTING GLOBAL RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 by Marc Limon, Nazila Ghanea and Hilary Power It is almost impossible to turn...
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Nov 8, 20141 min read
The Freedom of Expression Awards honour the word’s most remarkable fighters for free expression: who
2014 Award Winners Held on March 21, 2014 at the Barbican Centre, the 2014 Freedom of Expression Awards honoured these four courageous...
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Nov 5, 20144 min read
Ebola, Human Rights and Poverty – Making the Links
Alicia Ely Yamin 23 October 2014 The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many lessons, not least for global...
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