THE HUMAN SECURITY
PROGRAMME:
It seeks to protect
victims, and promote respect, for the
rights to life, personal liberty and
human integrity. Projects under the
programme include;
1. 1.
The Impunity Project:
It challenges arbitrary and
extra-judicial and summary executions
through documentation of violations and
abuses, campaigns for prosecution of the
perpetrators, and accountability by the
State to the victims.
2. 2.
The Torture prevention Project:
It documents violations, demands
accountability and redress, and provides
legal and rehabilitation support to
survivors and their families.
3. The death Penalty Project:
it aimed at campaigns for the abolition
of the death penalty in Nigeria, and in
the short term, challenges bad death
penalty practices including mandatory
death sentence, hanging as mode of
execution, and long death row custody.
The project documents and annually
publishes all confirmed death sentences
in Nigeria, monitors death penalty
practices in the country, and provides
free legal representation to persons
facing capital charges, including under
Shari’a.
The Nigeria Death
Penalty Group (NDPG), convened by LEDAP
comprises Non Government
Organizations (NGO’s) and individuals
working towards the abolition of the
death penalty in Nigeria.
The Group is committed
to:
·
A moratorium on executions in Nigeria.
·
Abolition of the death penalty for the
crimes in Nigeria.
·
The commutation of all death sentences
to life imprisonment.
·
Ratification and domestication of
treaties providing for abolition of the
death penalty, including the Second
Optional Protocol to the International
Convention on Civil and Political
Rights, aiming at the abolition of the
death penalty.
4.
Police Accountability project:
This project is aimed at making the
Police authority take action against any
offending Police officers. It is meant
to entrench in the police institution
respect to human rights, and human
dignity. It is also a means of ensuring
adherence to professional conduct, and
respect to life |
