By Albert Akota
United Nation (UN) Secretary General, António Guterres in a message to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in commemoration of the 2021 World Human Rights Day said, the outbreak of the noble covid-19 in 2020, the climate crisis and expansion of digital technology into all areas will create new threats to human rights.
The UN scribe reaffirmed that as a result of the aforementioned; exclusion and discrimination are becoming rampant and public space shrinking, adding that poverty and hunger are rising for the first time in decades.
According to him, seventy-three years ago the UN Assembly adopted the universal declaration of human rights, noting that the principles set out in the declaration remain the key to realizing all human rights.
Speaking earlier, the NHRC boss, Tony Ojukwu (SAN) in his remarks on the occasion of the kick-off of road walk to commemorate the 2021 international human rights day.
He said it’s a matter of great concern that violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, ongoing and upsetting human rights violation.
He noted that the worst part is that violence against women and girls has remained largely unreported due to the silence, stigma and shame attached to it.
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