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Human Welfare

NGOs deploy 1,000 volunteers to monitor COVID-19 palliatives

Some civil society groups in Nigeria have deployed about 1,000 monitors to evaluate the processes and impact of the various Covid-19 palliatives across the...

Michael Simire - April 19, 2020

Human Welfare

Indigenous Peoples flay Covid-19 spread, deaths, rights violations

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), an Indigenous Peoples’ organisation with affiliates from the North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the Arctic...

Michael Simire - April 16, 2020

Human Welfare

Covid-19: Govt urged to enact social and health security law

In the wake of the COVID-19 threat, a Social Security and Health Insurance Law for all Nigerians appears to be the most important issue...

Michael Simire - April 15, 2020

Human Welfare

COVID-19 pandemic and good governance

According to the United Nations Human Rights, there is no single and exhaustive definition of “good governance,” nor is there a delimitation of its...

Michael Simire - April 14, 2020

Human Welfare

Group clears air on covid-19 package and conditional cash transfer

The Federal and State Governments have been cautioned to stop confusing the three-year-old Conditional Cash Transfer with relief package designed to alleviate people confronted...

Michael Simire - April 12, 2020

Human Welfare

Coronavirus crisis could plunge half a billion people into poverty, says Oxfam

The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed over 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the world could push around half...

Michael Simire - April 9, 2020

Human Welfare

Armed conflicts, state repression fuel human rights violations in Africa

Protesters across sub-Saharan Africa have braved bullets and beatings to defend their rights in the face of continuing conflict and state repression, Amnesty International...

Michael Simire - April 8, 2020

Human Welfare

Lagos asked to extend COVID-19 advocacy to low income communities

A team of civil society organisations (CSOs) is requesting that COVID-19 testing and advocacy be extended to low income communities in Lagos State. In a...

Michael Simire - April 7, 2020

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