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Committee for the Defence of Human Rights Nigeria

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Aging Agriculture Atomic Energy Biodiversity Business and Industry Children Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Coorporate Accountability Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Culture De-mining Debt Relief Decolonization Development Disabled Persons Disarmament Drug Control Economics and Finance Education Energy Environment Extreme poverty Family Financing for Development Food Governance HIV/AIDS Habitat Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Indigenous Peoples Industrial Development Information Intellectual Property International Law International Security Justice Labour Law of the Sea and Antarctica Least Developed Countries Media Micro-Credit Migration Minority Rights New Global Institutions Outer Space Peace and Security Population Private Sector Refugees Religion Safety Science and Technology Social Development Sports for Peace and Development Statistics Sustainable Development Taxation Policy Technical Cooperation Torture Trade and Development United Nations Funding United Nations Reform Values Violence Volunteerism Water Women Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Research Service provision The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and HIV/AIDS Women and armed conflict Women and health Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Women and the media Women and the media Women in power and decision-making Population: International migration Morbidity and mortality Population distribution and internal migration Population growth Population structure Reproduction, family formation and the status of women Public Administration: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Governance and Public Administration Knowledge Systems and E-government Public Financial Management Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Social Development: Aging Conflict Disabled persons Employment Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Statistics: Civil registration systems Country or region codes Crime and criminal justice statistics Demographic and social surveys Development indicators Disability Statistics Environmental Accounts Geographical names Household Statistics Informal Sector Statistics International Comparison Programme International Economic and Social Classifications International migration Labour and Compensation Methodological publications in statistics National accounting Official statistics, principles and practices Population and housing censuses Poverty statistics Price and Quantity Statistics Services Statistics Social Statistics and Social Monitoring Statistical activities classification Statistics on international trade in services Time-use statistics Sustainable Development: Agriculture Atmosphere Biodiversity Biotechnology Capacity-building Climate change Consumption and production patterns Demographics Desertification and Drought Disaster management and vulnerability Education Energy Finance Forests Freshwater Gender equality Health Human settlements Indicators Industrial development Information for decision-making and participation Institutional arrangements Integrated decision-making International cooperation for an enabling environment International law Land management Major Groups Marine Resources Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.) Mining Mountains Oceans and seas Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sanitation Science Sustainable Tourism Sustainable development for Africa Sustainable development in a globalizing world Sustainable development of SIDS Technology Toxic chemicals Trade and environment Transport Waste (hazardous) Waste (radioactive) Waste (solid) Waste Management
Geographic scope:	National
Mission statement:	# To defend, sustain and promote fundamental human rights guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and other international conventions and covenants on human rights. # To campaign for the full implementation of human rights - particularly, cultural, economic and social rights. # To advocate for the ratification and implementation of all international conventions and obligations aimed at promoting human rights in Nigeria. # To establish a system of prompt and efficient assistance for needy persons whose human rights are violated. # To ally with other organisations committed to the ideals of a Nigerian society founded on participatory democracy and social justice. # To campaign for, promote and support legislations and other activities that are geared towards the improvement of human rights in Nigeria. # To create and support research centres and programmes for the study, teaching and monitoring of human rights in Nigeria. # To maintain close links and collaborate with other organisations with similar aims and objectives anywhere in the world.
Year established:	1989
Year of registration:	1989
Organizational structure:	The CDHR operates at three levels. They are: the National, the State Branch and the Unit levels. At each level, there is an Executive Committee which is responsible for the implementation of decisions reached by the members. At the three levels, there is an Annual General Meeting where far reaching decisions are taken and periodic elections conducted by members/delegates. In addition, Branches and Units meet at least once in a month. The National Executive Committee is assisted in the discharge of its functions by a NATIONAL SECRETARIAT manned by staff of the organisation. The National Secretariat building houses the CDHR National Resource Center which is open to the public for readings and research in national and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters, Journals, books and publications on human rights and allied themes. It also serves as operational base for the CDHR Human Rights and Legal Aid Clinic where victims of human rights violations lodge their reports which are received, processed and acted upon by project staffs. The National Secretariat is a hub for meetings by students, pro-democracy and human right activists, journalists, civil society organisations and members of the public.
Number and type of members:	Membership of the CDHR is open to all persons regardless of political, ethnic, racial or religious background on the condition that such persons subscribe to the aims and objectives of the organization. Membership of the CDHR is provided for by chapter 1 sections 3, 4 and 5 of the CDHR constitution. By virtue of that provision a person becomes a member by joining a unit of the organization where the person’s principal place of work or residence is located. Such person’s membership is initiated at that unit of the organization; this is done by the introduction of a prospective member by an existing member at a meeting of the unit. Subsequently the prospective member is expected to fully complete and submit the membership form of the organization to the unit secretary who shall process and forward same through the Branch to the National Secretariat for inclusion in the National Register of Members.
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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