Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development
Our work spans through the entire Niger Delta. Our main focus is on the rural areas, its people, biodiversity conservation, rural health and population. We also monitor document and report human rights violations across the region. In some of the cases, CEHRD provides legal advocacy to victims of human rights violations.
CEHRD
Promoting sustainable green development and entrenchment of human rights in Nigeria
Our Programs
OUR SCOPE IS NATIONAL
Our works cut across all strata of society in terms of age, gender and abilities, and the ratio of women to men we serve is 55:45.
We work towards a world where every child is free and their rights are protected under a just law
CEHRD researches, monitors and document on human rights, small arms, governance and topical biodiversity and environmental issues in the Niger Delta region and their associated human rights impacts
Over the years, CEHRD has grown into a leading NGO in the human rights and environmental movement in Nigeria, recording a number of important successes and milestones in the civil society sector
Our Vision
A just society with an enabling environment for the realization of the peoples’ fundamental human rights.
Guided by science and collaboration, we empower communities and partners to restore ecosystems through swift and sustainable greening initiatives.
Recent Publications
The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) on Friday called on the Bayelsa State House of Assembly to expedite action in the domestication of Violence Against Persons Prohibition...
CEHRD organised a media interactive session on a recently published policy brief from an earlier report by CEHRD on the Environmental, Health, Human Rights and Gender Baseline for Ogoniland Cleanup...
CEHRD organised 2-day capacity building for Women for Environmental Justice Network (WEJN) on “Advocating for Environmental Justice” under the environment stream of the Dutch project. The...
Today, Wednesday, 22 July 2020, CEHRD organized a press briefing at CEHRD secretariat, Port Harcourt. The briefing was to kickstart a media campaign and asking the Governor of River State to assent...
This is CEHRD’s Environmental, Health, Human Rights and Gender Baseline for Ogoniland Cleanup: A Framework for Statutory and Policy Change document. Click on the link below to download the...
CEHRD organised a 2-day capacity building for Women for Environmental Justice Network (WEJN) on “Advocating for Environmental Justice” under the environment stream of the Dutch...
Excerpt from the Forward to the Manual ”In May 2019, CEHRD conducted a baseline research on women’s workforce characteristics in Rivers and Bayelsa States. The study reveals that grassroots...
Gender-based violence (GBV) increases during every type of emergency- whether economic crises, conflict or disease outbreaks. Pre-existing toxic social norms and gender inequalities, economic and...
The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development joins the world to commemorate this year’s world ocean day. The day is set aside by the United Nations to sensitize and educate the global...
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