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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Hope Behind Bars Africa (HBBA) have entered into a two-year Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration on human rights protection, access to justice, civic space, digital rights,...
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Judge, Jury, Mob and the Case for Community Policing By Funke Adeoye ALUU4. Deborah Yakubu. The sixteen travellers lynched on the road in Uromi. These names have become...
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Agriculture as Rehabilitation: A Case for its Adoption in Nigerian Correctional Facilities. By Ibrahim Rasheed Working in the justice, rehabilitation and reintegration sp...
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When the law becomes a weapon By Onaopemipo Adegbenga When the Law Becomes a Weapon Across Nigeria’s civic space, a pattern is emerging that deserves closer attention. In...
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The lived realities of women behind bars in Nigeria By Onaopemipo Adegbenga When we think about incarceration, we often think in abstractions: numbers, categories, legal...
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12 Young Influencers Daring to Reshape Nigeria’s Civic Future Scroll through any TikTok or Twitter feed and you will find energy, opinions, in abundance. What you would n...
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Hope Behind Bars Africa’s Executive Director, Funke Adeoye, Wins the Prestigious IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer Award 2025 Hope Behind Bars Africa is proud to announce that...
Read articleBy Victory Chukwuka A new amendment proposed by the Nigerian House of Representatives, which recently passed second reading, seeks to make voting mandatory for all eligib...
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By David Abraham On the 7th of March 2025, the Supreme Court of Nigeria upheld the death sentence of Sunday Jackson, a farmer from Adamawa State, who was convicted for th...
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