Freedom Project
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Rights Group Decry Illegal Detension of Ibadan Business Woman, Alhaja Shakirat Ismail
A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has forwarded a Petition Letter to the…
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Complete Statement by Ken Saro-Wiwa To Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal in 1995
My name is Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa. I live at Simaseng Place, 9 Rumuibekwe Road, Port Harcourt. I am a writer,…
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Hmong in Isolation: Atrocities against the Hmong in Laos
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has released a report documenting an increase in military attacks and repression of the Hmong…
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Shell, human rights abuses and the Ogoni Nine
Shell has a long history of environmental damage and human rights violations in Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta. For years,…
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“I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.” – Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1995
In 1990, Saro-Wiwa launched a non-violent movement for social and ecological justice in his Ogoni homeland and the Niger Delta.…
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Introduction On October 24, 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations came into being as an…
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Ogoni 9 activists remembered 25 years on by Muhammad Bello
On November 10, 1995, nine Nigerian environmental activists accused of murder were executed by Sani Abacha’s military regime. Their deaths…
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Rule of Law Without Human Rights is Like an Empty Shell – U.N
In the first meeting of its kind, world leaders, ministers of justice, prosecutors, UN officials and representatives of civil society…
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