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In many communities across Kano and Sokoto, conflict has long been shaped by exclusion, weak systems, and limited access to justice. This end-of-project evaluation shows what begins to change when […]
A community-driven peacebuilding project in Kaduna State improves access to justice, strengthens resilience, and addresses SGBV through inclusive systems and local engagement.
In the heart of Northern Nigeria, where the echoes of conflict often drown out the cries for help, a new narrative is emerging. It is a story of resilience, but also a stark revelation of the shadows that remain unaddressed.
This baseline study was conducted to determine the level of access to justice and identify key barriers affecting citizens – particularly detainees, women, survivors, and other marginalized groups in Kano and Sokoto States. The study was commissioned by Global Rights to generate empirical evidence to inform program design and advocacy for improved justice delivery systems.
Countering Violent Extremism In North-East Nigeria through the LENS OF WOMEN
Northwestern Nigeria is suffering from an intense, destabilising conflict that has flown under the radar of international policymakers and analysts.
The year 2020 was a brutal year for most, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted nations and systems across the world. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, continued its own trajectory of grief and loss, contending not only with the global health pandemic, but also with its endemic insecurity that has spiralled exponentially in the past decade.
Of the above number, two thousand, seven hundred and seven (2707) were civilians, while 481 were state security agents. In other words, for every 5.5 deaths recorded, at least 1 of them was of a security officer.
Global Rights, in collaboration with the Institute for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, hosted a roundtable dialogue on February 21, 2017, on creating a multidimensional narrative to intellectually map the Southern Kaduna crisis and proffer tenable solutions for its mitigation.
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.
A Desk Study of Human Rights issues faced by Ethnic Minorities and Indigenous Groups
An analysis of the regulatory framework and public policies affecting internally displaced and/or confined Afro-Colombians