HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONFLICTS RESOLUTION CENTRE ABAKALIKI

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  • HRCRC BoT Meeting

    HRCRC BoT Meeting: As part of their statutory functions, HRCRC Board of Trustees had their first meeting on the 10th of June 2025 at the Theresa Ozor Conference room of HRCRC office Complex.
    In attendance were all members and ex officio members of the Board, led by the Chairman – Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ihwo SPS.
    Fruits included far-reaching resolutions and commendations that signal renewed vigor by all team members, especially under the oversight of the Board of Trustees.
    HRCRC BoT Meeting
    HRCRC BoT Meeting

  • Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command

    Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command: In continuation of our Advocacy and drive to ensure Access to Justice and Access to Mental Wellness for the inmates incarcerated in the correctional custodial centers, HRCRC visited the Comptroller of Corrections, Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command OFFEM BESSIE BENEDICT, on the 5th day of June 2025.
    The visit yielded positive results as the Comptroller assured us of robust collaboration to strengthen our drive to enhance justice delivery in the state.
    Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command
    Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command

  • Reactivation of the Ebonyi State Children Parliaments

    Reactivation of the Ebonyi State Children Parliaments: As part of our activities on Safeguarding Children and catching them young, and building them to be conscious conscientious leaders of tomorrow, HRCRC thought about giving them a voice, and a platform to debate, and articulate their issues as it affects them directly in their local communities and environments. This led to the reactivation of the Ebonyi State Children Parliaments in collaboration with the Ebonyi State Ministry of Women and Affairs and Social Development. These parliaments sat and deliberated in the three senatorial zones of the state and came up with Resolutions in form of a communique which was read and presented to the press and the Local Government Leadership of their host.
    Last Friday, HRCRC facilitated the leadership of all three parliaments to present the joint combined communique to key Government Officials such as the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Chief Judge of Ebonyi State, the wife of the Governor, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, the GBV Taskforce, the CSO Network, the National Human Rights Commission, the Attorney General of the State, amongst others.
    Reactivation of the Ebonyi State Children Parliaments
    Reactivation of the Ebonyi State Children Parliaments

  • Conflict Early Warning and Response System (CEWARS) in Ebonyi State

    Conflict Early Warning and Response System (CEWARS) in Ebonyi State: Keeping with our peace building mission with a focused emphasis on Conflict Prevention in Ebonyi State rather than responses, and continuing our establishment of Conflict Early Warning and Response System in Ebonyi State, We brought together the trained Early Warning Signs reporters to meet and interface with the Government Stakeholders and Security Agencies and Civil Society responsible for Response. While we continue to play the role of the intermediary for analysis and connection, it is our hope that this system established in the three pilot LGs of Ikwo, Ishielu, and Ohaukwu will be upscaled to all the Local Governments, communities, and zones.
    Conflict Early Warning and Response System (CEWARS) in Ebonyi State
    Conflict Early Warning and Response System (CEWARS) in Ebonyi State

  • Continuation of Prison Decongestion

    Continuation of Prison Decongestion: For about 4 years, HRCRC has been representing and trying to secure the release of 36 inmates incarcerated in the Abakaliki Correctional Custodial Center (Prisons) unjustly. These inmates had been discharged by four different courts on four different occasions in the course of our interventions but their detention continued.
    Gleefully, 12 of these inmates were discharged again yesterday and were released from detention. As we continue the fight to ensure the release of the others as well as other unjustly incarcerated inmates, we thank all through whose support, collaboration, and cooperation this was achieved.
    Continuation of Prison Decongestion
    Continuation of Prison Decongestion