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 […]
Is child rights protected by law?
Recently a story about a 4-year-old girl, Uloma, made a headline in a regional newspaper, Citizens’ Advocate. Uloma was found in a slave-like manner under the watch of a certain woman, Mrs Nwali Josephine. The woman is not the little girl’s mother. Weeks before Uloma was discovered, she hawked for her ‘madam’, Mrs Nwali, with […]
RIGHT TO FAIR HEARING
As Ngozi descended the stairs into the mall hall at the first floor, she just knew she hadn’t been treated right. Tears welled up in her eyes and her knees were still trembling. How come she was not given a chance to defend herself? Each time she attempted to speak before her supervisor and the […]
Fr. Kevin O’Hara (SPS) is honoured
HRCRC congratulates Fr. Kevin O’Hara (SPS) for his most recent Humanitarian Award given in recognition of his ‘outstanding contribution to the promotion of human rights in Nigeria’. The award was bestowed on him by CAPIO (Carmelite Prisoners’ Interest Organisation), a rights-based organisation in Enugu State in October 2017. Fr. Kevin is well known for his […]