HRCRC RELEASED TWO INMATES FROM CORRECTIONAL CENTER ABAKALIKI. Following our resolve to decongest the correctional centers, Last week, HRCRC again facilitated the release of two inmates from the Abakaliki Correctional Center who have been in custody for over two (2) years without any witnesses. The Abakaliki Correctional Center is currently housing over 1658 inmates awaiting […]
Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion
Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion Following our resolve to uphold Human Rights by Decongesting the Prisons of inmates who shouldn’t be incarcerated, HRCRC facilitated the release of 13 inmates – discharge of five (5) and bail of eight (8) from Abakaliki Correctional Centre between May and June, 2024. Remarkably, one of 5 who was […]
Youth and Women Rights Care Initiative Pays Advocacy Visit to HRCRC
Youth and Women Rights Care Initiative Pays Advocacy Visit to HRCRC In a bid to consolidate efforts at improving Human Rights appreciation and enforcement, Volunteers from the Youth and Women Rights Care Initiative paid an advocacy visit to HRCRC… soliciting areas for collaboration and partnership.
LAND CONFLICT; MOTHER OF DISPUTES – by Moses Ekeke
Conflict may be defined as “the strife for the mastery; hostile contest, battle, struggle, fighting between opposition, simultaneous but incompatible feelings or an opposition between persons or ideas; disagreement or argument about something important”[1]. “Land dispute involves conflicting claims to rights in land by two or more parties, focused on a particular piece of land, […]
THE UNJUST JUSTICE SYSTEM – by Gana Samuel Stephen
In Nigeria, wrongful convictions often pass through our judicial system undetected for some time, and at an alarming rate that the walls of our prisons are beyond what will be considered as overcrowded. Why this doesn’t plague the minds of individuals within the system is a mystery almost at par with the trinity. Remarkably, society […]