"My right is my right is my right!"

Welcome to cdhr-Nigeria

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) was formed in April, 1989. It started as a small group of professionals, individuals, friends and associates who felt concerned about the detention of the then trade unionist, Mr Femi Aborishade, who was incarcerated in 1989 under the obnoxious State Security (Preventive Detention) Decree No. 2 of 1984. The group then known as the Free Femi Aborishade Committee was formed to campaign for the release of Mr Aborishade from custody. However, owing to the fact that many Nigerians were also being detained under the said Decree while the campaign for his release was on, wisdom dictated that an umbrella body be formed to defend, not only the right of the detainees to liberty, but also the Fundamental Human Rights of all Nigerians on a permanent basis. Thus the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) emerged and blossomed into a full-fledged rights platform.

 

The CDHR operates at three levels. They are: the National, the State Branch and the Unit levels. At each level, there is an Executive Committee which is responsible for the implementation of decisions reached by the members. At the three levels, there is an Annual General Meeting where far reaching decisions are taken and periodic elections conducted by members/delegates. In addition, Branches and Units meet at least once in a month. The National Executive Committee is assisted in the discharge of its functions by a NATIONAL SECRETARIAT manned by staff of the organisation. The National Secretariat building houses the CDHR National Resource Center which is open to the public for readings and research in national and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters, Journals, books and publications on human rights and allied themes. It also serves as operational base for the CDHR Human Rights and Legal Aid Clinic where victims of human rights violations lodge their reports which are received, processed and acted upon by project staffs. The National Secretariat is a hub for meetings by students, pro-democracy and human right activists, journalists, civil society organisations and members of the public.


Aims and Objectives

To defend, sustain and promote fundamental human rights guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and other international conventions and covenants on human rights.

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Events


» cdhr is 20years

» Sunday 14/6/09 Press Conference

» Monday 22/6/09 Walk for Human Rights

» Tuesday 23/6/09 and wednesday 24/6/09 Human Rights Clinic Days 10:00am to 3:00pm each day

» Thursday 25/6/09 20th Anniversary Lecture 11.00am-2.00pm

» Friday 26/6/09 Statutory Meeting of the National Council of CDHR

» Saturday 27/6/09 Annual General Conference of the CDHR 10.00am

» cdhr monitor ekiti re-run eletion


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News

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 º CDHR AND CREDIBLE CIVIL SOCIETIES CAN NEVER BE BLACKMAILED BY MUDSLINGERS IN EFCC.

 º RE: HOUSE REPORTS ON INVESTIGATION INTO HUGE SUMS OF MONEY EXPENDED ON THE POWER SECTOR AND NON-REMITTANCE OF RECEIVED PUBLIC REVENUE INTO THE FEDERATION ACCOUNT BY MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES BETWEEN 2003 AND 2008:REQUEST FOR FOLLOW-UP ACTION.

 º RE: PETITION AGAINST, MICHAEL AONDOAKAA Esq. (SAN), THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION FOR GROSS ABUSE OF OFFICE, INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION.

 º RE: PETITION AGAINST, AGF Exhibit

 º Address by the national president, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR)at the twentieth Commemorative Lecture of the CDHR held at Excellence Hotel, Lagos on june 25, 2009

 º Communique Issued at The end of the Human Rights Clinic Organised and Hosted by the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights on tuesday 23rd and wednesday 24th june,2009 at the rights house

 º "Twenty years in defence of human rights in Nigeria: The gains, the losses" Text of Address at the"Walk for human rights

 º Anambra communities crises

 º MARCH 2009 Ekiti State Re-run Governorship Poll

 º 12 MARCH 2009 How Nigeria’s Federating Partners Shared Over N28trillion Or 200 Billion Dollars In The Past 9 ½ Years

 º 05 MARCH 2009 Intersociety Welcomes The Arrest Warrant On President Omar al- Bashir Of Sudan By The International Criminal Court

 º 2 MARCH 2009 The Ondo And Ekiti States’ Electoral Courts Judgments

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New Publication

 

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A Publication in commemoration of the 2oth anniversary of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR).

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Victims

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 º June,2003 Killing the Universities

 º March,2003 Assassins on the Prowl

 º December,2002 Miss World Tragedy

 º September,2002 Resisting Injustice

 º June,2002 Killer Cops

 º December,2000 Harvest of lies

 º Sept 2000 Looting Incorporated

 º April-June,1996 Violence Takes Over Nigeria

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Freedom Watch

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 º JUNE 2009 ANNIVERSARY EDITION, A Decade of Civil Rule Without Democracy

 º JUNE 2009 ANNIVERSARY EDITION, Endless Darkness in Nigeria

 º JUNE 2009 ANNIVERSARY EDITION, ...Before Corruption Kills Nigeria

 º Februay 2002, This is not Our Democracy

 º March 1999, Why Abacha Must Not Be President

 º Ife-Modakeke Communal Crisis: A Case of Unnecessary Fratricide

 º August 1997 Military Rule and The Slave Wage

 º May 1997, Cacophony of Bomb Blasts

 º April 1997, The Nigerian Military Dictatorship: Dividing, Ruling and Killing

 º March 1997 Military Rule: Putting Us Asunder, Setting us Apart

 º November 1996, ASSUS Sruggle For Better Education: A Salute to Courage

 º December 1996, Abachas War Against The Aged

 º October 1996, The Nigerian Military: Liquidating itself, Destroying the Society

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Foreign Journals

 

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