justice – Speak Out Africa

Let It Flow 2022- Sustained Commitment Towards Ending Period Poverty.

Over the past five years, Speakout Africa Organisation has continued to hold its flagship program across correctional facilities in Nigeria. Period poverty for incarcerated women cuts across SDGs, 3: good health and well-being, 6: clean water and sanitation, 10: reduced...

April 25, 2022

On Prisoners Rights and Correctional Centers in Nigeria

Features NIGERIA

On Prisoners Rights and Correctional Centers in Nigeria

By Ruth Soronnadi Nelson Mandela, a global human rights defender, ex-President of South Africa and a former prisoner rightly said: “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside the jails. A nation should...

March 27, 2022

World Drug Day 2020- Rehabilitation or jail term?

NIGERIA

World Drug Day 2020- Rehabilitation or jail term?

Speak Out Africa in partnership with YouthRise Nigeria Click here commemorates International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The world drug day is marked 26th June yearly and the theme for 2020 is ‘Better knowledge for better care’ Drug...

June 26, 2020

14 year old Miss J spent three years in jail awaiting trial…Seeking a child friendly justice system for the African child

AFRICA NIGERIA

14 year old Miss J spent three years in jail awaiting trial…Seeking a child friendly justice system for the African child

Day of the African Child 2020. Every 16 June, the African Union and its Member States observe the Day of the African Child (DAC) as a commemoration of the 16th June 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa, where students...

June 16, 2020

Addressing Africa’s Corruption Challenge

AFRICA ECONOMY

Addressing Africa’s Corruption Challenge

Are African countries poor because they are corrupt, or corrupt because they are poor?” When posed with this question, most Africans would recoil in response to the underlying assumption that corruption pervades every corner of the Continent, and that all...

March 31, 2018