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BRW Marks Five Years of Commitment to Rights Advocacy in Africa !!!

Basic Rights Watch (BRW), a Nigeria-based non-governmental organization (NGO) with a mission is to leverage open data, disruptive ideas and digital technologies to enhance popular participation and political accountability has celebrated its five years of commitments to advocating for basic human rights in Nigeria and across Africa. In a Press Statement signed and issued over […]

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Breaking the glass ceiling for women-led businesses in public procurement: fairness and inclusion through open contracting

Imagine you lead a successful accounting firm and want to bid on a government contract. You have heard that the government often pays for work several months after completed, so you would need a loan in order to apply. When you go to the bank, they ask to speak to your male business partner or

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Girls Education: The Path To Progress

  Dear Mr. President, My name is Austin Ekwujuru and I am a Champion for girl child education. Nigeria accounts for 45% of all out-of-school children in West Africa, with over 10 million out-of-school children. In the pool, girls account for 60% of Nigeria’s 10 million out-of-school children, experiencing consequences such as child marriage, multidimensional

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BudgIT, Basic Rights Watch (BRW), CSACEFA, CODE, and others Call on The Federal and States Governments To Prioritize Education

BudgIT and others task the Federal and State governments to adequately utilize funds for education for the development of the sector. The education budget performance is on a decline as funds targeted to the sector are either not accessed or under-utilized by the state government.According to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the number of

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Sexual Assault Support Assistant (SASA)

The Sexual Assault Support Assistant (SASA) is an initiative of Basic Rights watch (BRW) that aims to increase counselling, awareness education on Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria and also connect survivors to appropriate authorities that are providing sexual assault support-services for psycho-social, legal and medical aid. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) is prevalent worldwide,

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COMBATTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT ASSISTANT SASA

  A state of emergency is declared on Gender-Based Violence by Nigeria’s Governors Forum in 2020. This is following several reports and documentaries on the increasing rate of sexual assault and gender-based violence in Nigeria. Basic Rights Watch (BRW) is leading the innovative approach in combatting the spate of sexual and gender violence against women and

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BRW attends the 2nd continental Model-AU in Addis Ababa, 2018.

Model African Union (Model-AU) summit is a simulation activity in which participants (Young people) obtain skills such as diplomacy, teamwork, leadership, public speaking, and debating on issues at the highest level of continental decision-making. This event is hosted by the African Union. Participants are placed in committees, commissions and/or organs of the African Union, guided

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A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE ON DYNAMICS OF FARMERS-HERDERS CONFLICTS: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIAN’S FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Growing up was a beautiful experience for me. My parents and I lived in the North Eastern part of Nigeria where seeing cattle rearers move around our houses with their cattle was a normal life routine and often at times, they will ask for rice from my mum in exchange for Nono (cow milk). I

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