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WAITING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: 20.10.20 — FIVE YEARS ON
October 20, 2025 “You can’t dash me, my human rights…” - Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Beast of No Nation) The currency ...
Avoid Sanctions, Build Trust: A CSO’s Roadmap to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Discover how a well-structured compliance schedule can help your CSO stay legally sound ...
Eleven Years and Still Waiting to #BringBackOurGirls
"Sometimes, I cry when I remember. I ask myself: 'Why did I even leave Sambisa to come back to Nigeria, ...
Global Rights Condemns the Tragic Niger State Tanker Explosion: Urges Immediate Preventive Action
Global Rights expresses deep sorrow over the recent petrol tanker explosion in Niger State that claimed at least 70 lives, ...
Access to JusticeCivic Space StrengtheningFrontline JusticePress StatementSecurity & Human RightsWomen’s Rights
Global Rights Calls for Immediate Action To End Escalating Violence In The Democratic Republic Of Congo
Global Rights is deeply saddened and gravely concerned by the escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), particularly ...
Tragic Airstrikes in Tungar Kara: A Demand for Accountability and Reforms
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.” — Noam Chomsky The Community of Practice Against ...
Women with Disabilities Decry Stigmatization, Call for Inclusion at all Levels
Women with Disabilities have condemned the abject neglect, abuse and exclusion they have been facing in Nigeria. Participants from four ...
#EndBadGovernance Protests: Addressing the key Human Rights Trends
6th August, 2024 Press Release Global Rights reiterates its call on the Nigerian government to respect its citizens' right to ...
Day 1 of the #EndBadGovernanace Protests: Refrain from Further Aggravation!
Global Rights calls on the Nigerian government to respect its citizens’ right to protest and desist from further aggravating protesters ...
In Pursuit of Justice: Forensic Insights into Nigeria’s 2023 Election Atrocities
In Pursuit of Justice: Forensic Insights into Nigeria’s 2023 Election Atrocities The 2023 general election in Nigeria was characterized by ...
Suffering in silence no longer
How to bring Sudan’s humanitarian crisis to the forefront of the AU and international community’s attention (By Rachel Greenwood) Summary: ...
Access to JusticeCivic Space StrengtheningFrontline JusticeGovernanceSecurity & Human RightsWomen’s Rights
PROJECT IMPACT REPORT – WPS in the Northwest Nigeria APRIL 2024
Deploying Strategies For Increasing Access To Justice And Promoting Credible, Peaceful, Democratic Processes In North-West Nigeria [MARCH. 2023–APRIL 2024] ...
PRESS RELEASE – Elections in Gabon and Zimbabwe
Elections in Gabon and Zimbabwe: A Continued Threat to Democracy in Africa The recent general elections in Gabon and Zimbabwe ...
BASELINE REPORT – Conflict Triggers in NorthWestern Nigeria (Sokoto and Kaduna States)
BASELINE REPORT – Conflict Triggers in NorthWestern Nigeria (Sokoto and Kaduna States)) Northwestern Nigeria is suffering from an intense, destabilising ...
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis- Address humanitarian consequences of prolonged conflict and urge AU’s personal reckoning (Author: RACHEL GREENWOOD) Summary: Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis ...
Access to JusticeBusiness & Human RightsCivic Space StrengtheningFrontline JusticeGovernanceSecurity & Human Rights
Power to the People
Power to the People: Senegal’s civic demonstrations hold promise but Macky Sall is still left unaccountable Author: Rachel Greenwood Summary: Senegal’s ...
PRESS STATEMENT
PRESS STATEMENT 17 May, 2023 Press Statement For: Immediate Release The National Business and Human Rights Roundtable (NBH2R) commends the ...
Preliminary Post-Election Statement on the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Elections
Preliminary Post-Election Statement on the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Elections The Incident Centre for Election Atrocities (ICEA) commends Nigerians ...
Situation Report of Incidents of Pre-Election Atrocities Connected With #NigeriaDecides 2023
Statement: Situation Report of Incidents of Pre-Election Atrocities Connected With #NigeriaDecides 2023 Ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, the Incident ...
Nigeria Mining Week 2022
http://www.nigeriaminingweek.com/ Established 6 years ago, Nigeria Mining Week is the partner of choice, the innovative port of call and deal ...
CSOs TASK FG TO ACCOUNT FOR MISSING NIGERIANS & TO TACKLE INSECURITY
CSOs TASK FG TO ACCOUNT FOR MISSING NIGERIANS & TO TACKLE INSECURITY In the wake of the most unfortunate Abuja-Kaduna ...
Secure Nigeria, Account for the Missing and the Dead
“Secure Nigeria, Account for the Missing and the Dead” The Community Of Practice Against Mass Atrocities, and the Joint Action ...
NATIONAL SECURITY: BUHARI HAS SO FAR, FAILED
NATIONAL SECURITY: BUHARI HAS SO FAR, FAILED. Introduction Nigeria is in dire straits. All over the country, Nigerian citizens, including ...
2020 Report Summary Speech
It is not news that Nigeria is in a precarious place right now and in need of urgent interventions to ...
2020 Mass Atrocities Report
The year 2020 was a brutal year for most, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted nations and systems across the world ...
Female Genital mutilation: A byproduct of gender inequality.
Female Genital mutilation: A byproduct of gender inequality. In passage ways leading to abattoirs disguised as sacred rooms for purification, ...
Fake News: Secret Execution of Six (6) Igbo Soldiers
The Joint National Action Civil Society Coalition has denounced as fake news the story of the summary trial and execution ...
Acquittal of 13-year-old Umar Farouq in Blasphemy Case, a step in the right direction
January 25th, 2021 Acquittal of 13-year-old Umar Farouq in Blasphemy Case, a step in the right direction Global Rights wishes ...
Meet our Sheroes – Hajia Asma’u Joda
Hajia Asma’u Joda Hajia Joda is a feminist and a human rights activist based in Yola, Adamawa State in north-eastern ...
Meet our Sheroes – Aisha Bakari Gombi
Aisha Bakari Gombi Aisha Bakari Gombi, 38, was born and raised near the Sambisa forest, the headquarters of Boko Haram ...
Meet our Sheroes – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born in Abeokuta, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria. She was one of the first women ...
Meet our Sheroes – Gambo Sawaba
Gambo Sawaba Born in Zaria, Kaduna state to Fatima (Nupe) and Isa Amarteifo (a Ghanaian), Gambo Sawaba was a Nigerian ...
Looking through historic lenses, #SherosPastNPresent
On the eve of September 30, 1960, Nigerians were ecstatic! The long years of negotiations, awakening of national consciousness, and ...
PRESS RELEASE: USE OF LETHAL FORCE ON #ENDSARS PROTESTERS
The Security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of Government – Section 14(2)(b) Constitution of the ...
Southern Kaduna on My Mind: A Visit to Rimau
Southern Kaduna has been a hotbed of various conflicts with socio-political, cultural, religious and ethnic underpinnings. The district consists of ...
Press Statement -Blasphemy Sentences
September 18, 2020 Blasphemy Sentences Against Mr. Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, and 13-year-old Master Umar Farouq: An urgent call for Intervention. Global Rights has ...
Artisanal Miners in Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and measures put in place by the state government to contain the spread poses lots of challenges ...
The Almajiri Child’s Life Matters Too – COVID-19
The outbreak of the global pandemic (Corona Virus or COVID-19) has brought about a change in world affairs. People are ...
My Experience during the Corona Virus Lockdown – By Judith Ngozi
As an essential service provider, I have had to spend most of my days outdoors than indoors and I have ...
Dangers Abound
I traveled for a brief work, what I never budgeted was Corona Virus shutting down my life and putting family ...
Since the Lockdown Began
Since the lockdown began, we have been consistently advised to reach out to our friends and loved ones, check up ...
The Covid Question
Does it mean that we should continue to stay at home and die of hunger in this country when those ...
COVID-19 LOCK DOWN: The Hunger and Anger of a Nation
COVID-19 LOCK DOWN: The Hunger and Anger of a Nation The outbreak of this prevalent deadly Chinese virus which has ...
Life during Covid- 19 Lockdown; knocks, kudos
By Henry Uche BEFORE the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2019, in China, world economies were striving to set their countries ...
Mass Atrocities Casualties Tracking Report 2019
Our tracking of casualties of conflicts, violent clashes and extrajudicial killings across Nigeria for 2019 informs that at least Three Thousand, ...
