By Albert Akota
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday in Abuja organized two days workshop for various Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) in the country to assess the report on human rights in Nigeria.
Speaking at the opening of the workshop in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chief Tony Ojukwu (SAN), said that the workshop was a strategic approach towards the realisation of the guidelines of the UN Human Rights Council(HRC) resolution 5/1 of June 18, 2007 and a step towards the realisation of the guidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution of June 18, 2007.
Ojukwu added that in the guidelines, the national human rights institutions and civil society in the country under review are expected to play pivotal roles.
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