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Our Focus

Our main focus is on the rural areas, its people, biodiversity conservation, rural health and population.

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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

CEHRD, Others Participate In UNDP GEF-SGP Inception Workshop for Operation-7 Grantees

Josiah Egbilika Senior Advocacy and Communications The Centre for Environment Human Rights and Development ( CEHRD ) participated in a-two-day United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) GEF-SGP...

World Environment Day 2025: CEHRD Calls Concerted Efforts To End Plastic Pollution

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CERHD) has called on Nigerians, International Oil Corporations (IOCs), Local Oil Corporations (LOCs) to desist from activities that constantly...

CEHRD, Others Trained on HSE and Risk Management In Port Harcourt

Josiah Egbilika Senior Advocacy and Communications Officer The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) was part of a 3-day Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Risk Management...

CEHRD Joins Other CSOs To Call For Community Engagement, Advocacy As Pathways To Climate Justice In Nigeria

By Josiah Egbilika1 and Dr. Tammy Cookey2 The Centre for Environment Human rights and Development, #CEHRD with other stakeholders have called on Civil Society Organizations, Non-Governmental...

CEHRD Carries Out Consultation and Advocacy Visits in Rivers And Bayelsa States on Its Reducing Incidences and Re-occurrences of Oil Re-Pollution in the Niger Delta Project

As part of the project on Reducing Incidences and Re-occurrences of Oil Re-Pollution in the Niger Delta, CEHRD carried out consultation and advocacy activities in Rivers and Bayelsa States. The...

Two Marriages in CEHRD in Less Than Two Months as Dr. Tammy Cookey Takes Bride Home

by Josiah Egbilika Senior Advocacy and Communications Officer, CEHRD  Saturday, April 5, 2025 saw the Head of Department, Environment and Conservation Unit of Centre for Environment, Human Rights...

CEHRD CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS PROHIBITION LAW

by Queen Agba Head, Human Rights and Governance, CEHRD Today, on the UN International Day of Women, we reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the development of a Nigerian society where women and girls...

CEHRD Begins Stakeholders Mapping On Its Reducing Incidences and Re-occurrences of Oil Re-Pollution in the Niger Delta Project

As part of its project on Reducing Incidences and Re-occurrences of Oil Re-Pollution in the Niger Delta within 12 months sponsored by True Cost Initiative, CEHRD on the 25th and 27th February, 2025...

CEHRD Celebrates Her Staff As She Joins Her Heartthrob

by Josiah Egbilika Senior Advocacy and Communication Officer, CEHRD Marriage it is said is a beautiful thing especially when one finds his her soulmate. To that, Bodocity stood still as former Miss...

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