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Human Rights Information Network (HuRINet)

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Agriculture
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Coorporate Accountability
  • Crime Prevention
  • Criminal Justice
  • Debt Relief
  • Development
  • Disabled Persons
  • Disarmament
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Information
  • Justice
  • Migration
  • Minority Rights
  • Peace and Security
  • Population
  • Refugees
  • Sustainable Development
  • Trade and Development
  • United Nations Reform
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
  • International Trade as an engine for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Women and armed conflict
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Population:
  • International migration
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Reproduction, family formation and the status of women

    • Public Administration:
  • Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Public Financial Management
  • Socio-Economic Governance and Management

    • Social Development:
  • Conflict
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Demographics
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Education
  • Gender equality
  • Human settlements
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Technology
  • Waste Management
    • Geographic scope: National
    Country of activity:
  • Nigeria
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Organizational structure: Human Rights Information Network is a National Network of Non Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations and Civil Societies groups dedicated to sharing ideas, experiences and resources to promote broad access to and effective use of knowledge and information as tools of promoting research and work in the fields of human rights, development, socio-economic and political rights, gender and child rights, environment and consumer rights and freedom of information. Founded in 1997, the HuRINet is supported by the British Council (BC) and the United Nations Information Center (UNIC). Presently, the network has an Organizational membership strength of more than hundred and twenty not-for-profit rights based organizations committed to the protection of human rights and social justice in Nigeria. The Management Committee The Management Committee oversees the development of the Network and runs the day-to-day affairs of HURINET. This Committee, Headed by the Chairperson is the highest decision-making body charged with the duty to make substantive decisions about budget expenses, including the allocation of resources for programmes and projects. The Management Committee represents HURINET and approves the work of the Secretariat. The Management Committee is made up of representatives Nominated by member NGOs and elected on the strength of their individual characters. Standing Committees/Special Working Groups The standing committees provide a forum for members to plan and implement activities for the Network. In line with our promise to run an all inclusive network, and involve everybody in the course of executing our activities which lead to the successful holding of our events. They have a responsibility to monitor Nigeria’s activities and progress on their respective thematic areas and where appropriate advice on a cause of action, propose or design events for the network which shall be implemented by HuRINet Events and Activity Team (HEAT) after approval by the General assembly and ratification by the Executive committee.
    Number and type of members: membership is drawn from the CSO, FBO, NGO CBO, MEDIA, ACADEMIA, it is organisational membership network
    Affiliation with NGO networks: WangoNet, NACCRAN, DEVNet, UNOY, ANUNSA, CIPOG
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fees for providing consulting or research services
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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