Hello! It is KNOW YOUR RIGHTS project. From HRCRC, Abakaliki, we are glad to share this maiden edition with you. Our task today is simple: we want to introduce you to the project. Think of this story. Ajole is a princess, a daughter of a late wealthy king. Ajole however, did not know who she […]
MY RIGHTS AS A PERSON
Welcome to our second post on Know Your Rights media project. Our interest today is to understand what constitutes rights for an individual, and how this relates to other peoples rights. As usual, we shall begin with a story. Evelyn and Sandra were very good friends. It happened that both friends became pregnant with Sandra […]
Essential Attributes of HRs: (1) UNIVERSALITY
Earlier this year, a young boy ran to our office crying for help. He was physically distressed and had a deep and fresh wound on the back of his head. The boy’s face and shirt were terribly stained all over by blood. He told us, his father inflicted the head-injury on him, and that it […]
Essential Attributes of HRs: (2) INALIENABILITY
Inalienability of human rights. What does this mean? Don’t mind the weirdness of the sound of the word ‘inalienability’. The meaning is not as difficult as it sounds. But to help you understand, we ask you to pay attention to our story about Adaobi. Adaobi, a 15 years old girl is an orphan. She had […]
Essential Attributes of HRs: (3) INDIVISIBILITY & INTERDEPENDENCY
Kabiru works as a security officer in the house of Dr Alabi. Although, he was hired as a ‘gateman’, there is hardly any other chores Kabiru does not do in Dr Alabi’s compound. He washes the cars (Alabi has two, Lexus Jeep and a Toyota 4Runer), does gardening and man the security post. Since he […]