Press Release The Nigerian authorities must immediately scrap plans to execute death row inmates in Kirikiri prison in Lagos, Amnesty International said today amid macabre reports from inmat... Read more
DAKAR/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 12 April 2017 – The number of children used in ‘suicide’ attacks in the Lake Chad conflict has surged to 27 in the first quarter of 2017, compared to nine over the sam... Read more
As part of the celebration of UNICEF’s 70th anniversary last year, we invited writers from all over the world to write a short story on the theme ‘what I want for every child’. Out of the mo... Read more
Press Release We the undersigned Civil Society Organisations condemn in totality, the recent attack on Amnesty International, Abuja. We find such undemocratic action against a credible globa... Read more
Children will be most affected as climate change worsens an ongoing water crisis New York, 22 March 2017 – Some 600 million children – or 1 in 4 children worldwide – will be living in areas... Read more
New funding will contribute to emergency efforts in Nigeria and Lake Chad region to prevent spread of polio Abuja, 20 March 2017 – Japan, as one of the largest supporters of efforts to eradi... Read more
Journalists in developing or transitioning countries can apply for a fellowship to travel to the 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC17) in Johannesburg, South Africa. The G... Read more
By Christopher Thornley Good evening and welcome to our celebration of one hundred and fifty years of Canada. My spouse Catherine and our son Jack join me in a warm welcome along with our wh... Read more
Press Release The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), a civil society organisation currently engaged in a project to support the federal government’s whistle-blower... Read more
Two years after the largest documented schoolchildren abduction by Boko Haram militants occurred in the northeastern Nigeria town of Damasak, hundreds of schoolchildren are still missing. Wh... Read more
