Human Rights & Governance

In line with our campaigns to ensure that women are given their rightful positions in decision making, CEHRD organized an awareness campaign on women inclusion in community governance on Wednesday 10th June, 2015 at Marine Base Community, Port Harcourt. The campaign was used to sensitize community people; both male and female on the need to […]

As part of CEHRD’s culture of partnership and creating synergy in intervention, the NSRP Output 3 project team joined the Women in Governance Network in an advocacy visit to Polo Chairmen of Marine Base on Wednesday, 29th April, 2015. This activity is under the project – ‘Integrated Approach on Increasing women Participation in Governance in Rivers State’, implemented

In line with its mandate to increase women’s participation in governance, the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development organized a town hall meeting on Wednesday 3rd June, 2015 at Firisika Polo in Marine Base Community, Port Harcourt. The meeting is in furtherance to the advocacy visit to Polo Chairmen within Marine Base community which

CEHRD NSRP Output three team inaugurated and built the capacity of Peace Club drama group. The group members organises role play sessions with their group lead during their weekly club meeting in Mogho-Gokana LGA, Rivers state.  These kids have been mentored and have acquired the necessary skills that enable them to play active roles in peace

Big businesses, such as the Multinational oil companies have been recognised as big violators of human rights. To help checkmate flagrant abuses in the cause of business operations, the Voluntary Principles on security and human rights have been adopted by multinationals. CEHRD organised community level trainings on voluntary principles on security and human rights which

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) and, Kpor, Okana and Marine Base Youth Leadership Networks in line with its search for accountability of government to the people and the youths and working to reduce youth unemployment in Rivers state paid advocacy visits to several Ministries, agencies and enterprises including the Ministry of Youth

CEHRD NSRP team participated in several Live Radio shows at Wazobia on entrenching transparency, accountability and inclusiveness in the Design and Delivery of Youth Programmes in Rivers state, at Rhythm FM on Youth Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in Rivers state, at Wazobia FM on Youth Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in Rivers state, at Wazobia on

CEHRD NSRP Output three, in conjunction with peace clubs, organised peaceful road walks in Mogho and Bera, Gokana LGA and in Anyu, Abua/Odual LGA, Rivers state from 9th to10th December, 2015.This was in commemoration of the 2015 ‘16 Days Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV)’ which was used to create awareness on the reduction of all forms of

The peace club in Gokana (Mogho and Bera) and Anyu (Abua/Odual) with support from CEHRD had three advocacy visits to community stakeholders in November and December 2015.  Gokana Peace Club community stakeholder advocacy visit was held on Monday, November 23, 2015 with over 20 persons in attendance. The focus of the advocacy was to identify with

CEHRD organised community level trainings on Participatory Governance and Social Inclusion, which was part of capacity building, empowerment and sensitization programmes on the human rights stream of the Dutch Embassy funded project entitled Promoting Best Practice Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria: An Intervention framework for Rivers and Bayelsa States. The community level trainings