The Bar Human Rights Committee and the National FGM Centre have today launched a training video on interviewing child witnesses...
Country: <span>Nigeria</span>

BHRC attends the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference
Bar Human Rights Committee Chair Kirsty Brimelow QC, Membership Secretary Grainne Mellon and Executive Officer Amanda June Chadwick attended the...

BHRC conducts training for Nigerian lawyers on Environmental Rights and Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Bar Human Rights Committee conducted a training for the Nigerian Bar Association on Environmental Rights and Alternative Dispute Resolution...

BHRC hosts discussion on 20 Years of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
To mark the 20-year anniversary of the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the Bar Human Rights Committee hosted...

BHRC conducts training for Nigerian lawyers on the rights of IDPs
BHRC conducted a pilot training for lawyers from the North Eastern branches of the Nigerian Bar Association on the legal...

Nigeria: Child Rights Training
In January 2016, BHRC partnered with Coram Children's Legal Centre and UNICEF to deliver training in child rights to judges and magistrates in Nigeria.
Kirsty Brimelow QC, Chair of BHRC, and Ifeanyi Odogwu of Garden Court Chambers travelled to Abuja to deliver a four day training workshop to members of the Nigerian judiciary who will cascade this learning by training other judges in child rights.

Nigeria: Child Protection Networks
In partnership with UNICEF Nigeria, BHRC developed a programme to develop the capacity of the Child Protection Networks (CPNs) in Nigeria with a focus on building practical skills in human rights monitoring and case management.
The 'CPNs' are community-based child protection networks, which exists in over half of Nigeria's 36 states. CPN members carry out monitoring, documentation and reporting of child rights abuse cases.

Niger Delta: Child Rights Watch
The Niger Delta Child Rights Watch (NDCRW) project is an initiative by Stepping Stones Nigeria to raise the capacity of Nigerian child rights NGOs to document, investigate and monitor cases of child rights abuse across the Niger Delta, report such cases to the relevant authorities, and secure successful prosecutions of offenders. The project also provides direct emergency support to children who have suffered abuse, including medical care, food, educational support and counselling.
Additionally, the NDCRW project supports a range of advocacy activities with children, parents, communities, churches, police, government and civil society, in order to ensure better understanding of child rights law and principles and to support improved commitment to and protection of child rights in practice. All advocacy work centres around the PACT (Prevent Abuse of Children Today) campaign.
The NDCRW project brings together organisations from different States in the Niger Delta: Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (Cross River State), Stepping Stones Nigeria Child Empowerment Foundation (Akwa Ibom State) and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (Rivers State).
BHRC expresses its concern regarding reports received regarding the security at the Child Rights and Rehabilitation centre
Dear Honourable Governor, RE: The Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network centre I am writing on behalf of the Bar Human...