In a 2019 rating, Civicus demoted Nigeria’s rating from ‘Obstructed’ to ‘Repressed’. Fast forward to October 2021, this rating has remained repressed, and at several points within this gap, it has spiraled and oscillated nearer to ‘closed’.

Power At All Cost Report Publication

A Report on the Impact of Coal Mining and Coal Power Generation on Host Communities in Gombe State, Nigeria.

Nigeria has been at cross roads regarding its energy future for a while now. In order for the nation not to allow this crisis to go to waste, it must recognize and appreciate it as an opportunity to capture the high grounds of global advancements. It must use ‘what it has to get what it wants’, while maintaining a strategic contextual balance.

Preventing Atrocities:
A Toolkit of Technical Guidance And Best Practices For Atrocity Prevention
Atrocity crimes – including genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity – which are marked by the large-scale and deliberate targeting of civilians, are violations that particularly offend the collective consciousness and are acts that countries around the globe have agreed to prevent and punish. Unfortunately, notwithstanding international treaty commitments, or the 2005 affirmations by heads of state of their “responsibility to protect” against these offenses, these crimes continue to happen all too often, both during and outside armed conflict.

PARALEGAL TRAINING MANUAL on Improving Women’s Access to Justice in Northern Nigeria

The community-based paralegal movement came about in response to the need to promote and protect human rights and to provide greater access to justice in grass root communities, particularly for marginalized, less privileged, and poor residents. Paralegal services also promote greater accountability of the justice system. Through the services of community-based paralegals, legal aid and legal advice are made more widely available, especially to women living in rural communities.

Where people do not have access to justice, they become more vulnerable to human right abuses. While it is the duty of governments to promote, protect and fulfill the rights for all citizens, citizens also have a correlating right and a duty to hold governments accountable to the fulfillment of this duty.

Paralegal training is no longer a new innovation in Nigeria with the training of paralegals by various Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for upwards of fifteen years. Although paralegals have been trained for these long there has been no harmonized form of neither training nor training content to standardize the level of training being carried out by the various organizations involved in the training of paralegals nationwide.

A Survivors Guide – What to do if you have been Sexually Assaulted

SGBV Protocol Tool Pack

THIS TOOL-PACK BRINGS TOGETHER SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PROTOCOLS, MATRICES, AND TOOL-KITS FOR IDENTIFIED RESPONSE INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA.

Regulatory Compliance Toolkit for NGO’s in Nigeria
The toolkit was developed as a response to identifed gaps in Nigeria’s civil society organization space consisting of community-based organizations, faith- based organizations and non-governmental organizations. These gaps were identifed through a desk-based research conducted on some of the difculties and challenges facing CSO compliance in Nigeria and the more general governance challenges.

Protecting Community Rights – within the Institutional, Legal and Regulatory Framework for Mining Activities in Nigeria
This book attempts to address gaps in the promotion and protection of host community rights in Nigeria’s solid mineral industry. It provides an overview of the Nigerian institutional legal and regulatory framework on mineral extraction, its social, environmental and human rights impacts, and discusses the protection of community rights within this framework.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of many events that has had negative impacts on the global oil markets exposing the fragility and vulnerability of the Nigerian economy. This has prompted the Federal Government of Nigeria, to intensify its efforts of diversifying the Nigerian economy. One of such efforts is revamping the mining sector in order to attract foreign investments. Can Nigeria successfully pursue its mining ambition for economic growth in a socially and environmentally sustainable and responsible way with minimal impact on local host communities?

SBVG Protocols, Matrices, and Tool-Kit

Sexual violence usually involving varying forms of sexual acts carried out against you without your consent. Both males and females can be sexually violated, irrespective of age, class or status.

This manual is specifically tailored to respond to the gaps identified in the 2009 study by Global Rights entitled “Assessment of women’s priority legal needs in Northern Nigeria” and is designed for community-based
organizations, activists and opinion leaders in grass-root communities. It includes detailed information that can facilitate learning and increase the knowledge base of community activists on women’s access to justice,
human rights and the rule of law.

The purpose of this paralegal training manual is to provide basic instructions and skills for would–be community-based paralegals in Northern Nigeria to offer legal first aid to victims of human rights violations. It took into cognizance the fact that accessing justice goes beyond access to the courts and law enforcement, it realizes that community-based from law enforcement agents and seeks redress where their rights have been abused.

Our tracking of casualties of conflicts, violent clashes and extrajudicial killings across Nigeria in 2020.

Our tracking of casualties of conflicts, violent clashes and extrajudicial killings across Nigeria for 2019.

Countering Violent Extremism in Northern-East Nigeria through the LEN OF WOMEN

A Report on the Impact of Coal Mining and Coal Power Generation on Okobo and Itobe Communities of Kogi State

This report has attempted to provide a narrative on the status of the extractive host community in Nigeria and at the same time proffered some recommendations. It is our hope that it will increase stakeholder knowledge and catalyze essential conversations with policymakers, and that legal and regulatory reforms will result from these conversations and improve the status of extractive host communities across Nigeria.

Learning module for civil society organizations in SubSaharan Africa on access to remedy for business-related human rights abuses: the broader system, and business-centered mechanisms.

How can civil society use the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?

Introduction to extractive industry contracts, governance and human rights UN Principles for Responsible Contracts

Lessons Learned from Global Right’s Community-Based Paralegal Services in Nigeria and Uganda

Littafin Horarwa Ga ‘Yan-Agajin Adalci Game Da

This guide book lays out the program framework, recommended good practices and tools for Global Rights’ (GR) core program approach – Human Rights Capacity Building. This handbook should be seen as an evolving continuously refined set of applied knowledge and tools that animates, guides and documents this approach.

Africa Regional Training Workshop: Business & Human Rights

Thematic Working Group Recommendations from Morocco and Algeria

A Desk Study of Human Rights issues faced by Ethnic Minorities and Indigenous Groups

State of Human Rights in Northern Nigeria – Abridged version

Challenges with addressing domestic violence in compliance with the Convention Against Torture 47th Session of the Committee Against Torture

NGO-Drafted Bill on Violence against Women in Morocco Key Provisions (English)

Facilitator’s Manual for Paralegal Training On Improving Women’s Access to Justice in Northern Nigeria

Paralegal Toolkit – PUBLISHED AND PRINTED BY GLOBAL RIGHTS, NIGERIA – on Improving Women’s Access to Justice in Northern Nigeria

Kansakalin Kariya A Shari’a Domin Nijeriya Ta Arewa

PARALEGAL TRAINING MANUAL on Improving Women’s Access to Justice in Northern Nigeria

An analysis of the regulatory framework and public policies affecting internally displaced and/or confined Afro-Colombians

Measuring Adherence to the Rule of Law around the World

A National Report on Domestic Abuse in Afghanistan

Facilitator’s Guide for Community Legal Education on Women’s Rights in India

Election_Mandate_Protection_Toolkit_2006

Promoting Women’s Human Rights – A Resource Guide for Litigating International Law in Domestic Courts