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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, JUNE 5, 2021.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, JUNE 5, 2021. A PRESS RELEASE This year’s world Environment Day Commemoration has been tagged “Ecosystem Restoration“, which marks the start of UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. Though the Niger Delta is amongst the world’s richest biodiversity regions, it is one of the worst degraded eco-regions with unprecedented loss of community livelihoods […]

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CEHRD organized a Multi-stakeholder Policy Summit on Gender Based Violence Response in Bayelsa State

In attendance were representatives from the Nigeria Police Force, Bayelsa State Command, Primary Health Management Board and Civil Society Organizations in Bayelsa State. This is with support from Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) joins the Human Rights community and partners all over the world to celebrates this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation that remains all too pervasive in every part of the world. Too often,

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CEHRD Press Release On International Human Rights Day 2020

Statement on International Human Rights Day 10 December 2020 The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) joins the Human Rights community and her partners all over the world to celebrate this year’s International Human Right’s Day tagged “Recover Better-Stand Up For Human Rights”. The recent developments in Nigeria have undermined fundamental rights of

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CEHRD Calls for End in Police Brutality and Corruption in Nigeria

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) has been observing a dangerous trend and pattern in Police brutality and corruption in Nigeria. The ongoing protests by the youths all over the country is the cumulative consequence and evidence of reactions to police brutality nationwide. The protest was borne out of the fact that

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Multi-stakeholders Policy Summit on Gender Based Violence Response in Rivers State

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, (CEHRD) organized a multi-stakeholders policy summit on gender-based violence response in Rivers State. Participants were drawn from the Police, Hospital Management Board, Ministry of Justice, Media and Civil Society. This is with support from the Embassy of the Netherlands, Abuja.

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