INTERNATIONAL
ADVOCACY PROGRAMME:
The programme is
aimed at using international mechanism
for the protection and promoting the
respect of human rights in Nigeria. The
international Advocacy program
comprises;
· Communication
with the Africa Commission on Human and
Peoples Rights
· Advocacy
for the Nigeria ratification of the
protocol to the Africa Charter for the
establishment of the Africa Court on
Human and peoples Rights, and the
protocol to the charter on the Rights of
Women in Africa.
· Communications
to special mechanisms of the United
Nations Human Rights Commission,
Including the Special Rappoteur of
Extral-judicial eexecutions,
independence of Judges and Lawyers, and
on violence against women.
The project under this
programme is;
Engaging the African/UN Human Rights
System:
LEDAP works with the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights and the
Africa Commission on Human Peoples
Rights on promotion and protection of
human Rights in Nigeria. The
organization has protest on several
human rights violation at the Africa
Commission. LEDAP submitted 4 complaints
to 2 special mechanisms of UN
Commission, namely the Special
Rapporteur on the Violence against Women,
and on the Independence of Judges
and Lawyers on violations in the
country relevant to those mechanisms.
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