by admin_HRWF | Sep 10, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Nigerian women use nudity to turn traditional ideas of protest on their heads. By Bright Alozie The Conversation (03.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3m76Cf7 – Social media went abuzz on July 23, 2020, when hundreds of women – mostly naked – staged a protest in...
by admin_HRWF | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
HRWF (13.08.2020) – Human Rights Without Frontiers condemns the death sentence by hanging issued by a Nigerian Sharia court in Kano against a 22-year-old singer for allegedly insulting the Prophet in a song that he wrote and circulated on WhatsApp. ...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 30, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Poor Nigerian inmates can wait years for their cases to go to trial, but now a group of lawyers are fighting the system. By Nosmot Gbadamosi Al Jazeera (24.06.2020) – https://bit.ly/2Bmlgg0 – On a breezy February morning at the height of the...
by admin_HRWF | May 12, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
USCIRF (08.05.2020) – https://bit.ly/3bmMOhd – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today expressed its deep concern regarding the recent arrest of Mubarak Bala, president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria. Mr. Bala...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 3, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Among 47 Nigerian men on trial for same-sex affection are people who have been made homeless and lost their jobs by the publicity. By Alexis Akwagyiram Openly (24.02.2020) – https://bit.ly/2x1PNx7 – The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police...
