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DAPC: UNODC & PRAWA Trained 40 Peer Educators on Life Planning and Substance Abuse

 The training which started on Thursday, 17th runs to Saturday, 19th November, 2016. PRAWA organized a three (3) days Secondary and Tertiary Institution Training of Peer Educators on Life Planning

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Victims of human trafficking in Ogun recount ordeal

It was shocking when the survivors of human trafficking spoke   on their ordeal, cataloguing their tales of woe while being hold as slaves in their fatherland.  What shocked many people was the

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Kaduna govt, PRAWA train child trafficking victims

Kaduna State Government in partnership with a nongovernmental organization, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, PRAWA has embarked on training of 30 victims and vulnerable/potential victims of trafficking. PRAWA Program officer,

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PRAWA/NAPTIP to Train 300 Victims of Human Trafficking in Various Skills

PRAWA and The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is to train 300 victims of human trafficking in various skills. The NAPTIP Kano Zonal Commander, Alhaji

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Pro Bono Lawyers Get Rewarded For Their Service to Humanity

The Speeding up Criminal Justice Project of the Justice for All Programme is a DFID funded intervention introduced, among other objectives, to address in a holistic manner the challenge of

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Enugu Judiciary Gets a Bail Information Center

The problem of high population of Awaiting Trial Persons (ATPs) has been consistently underscored by both state and non-state actors as a major crack in the Nigerian criminal justice system.

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PRAWA Protects Youths-at-Risk As It Embarks on Anti Human Trafficking Project in Nigerian States

Given its current status as a source, transit and destination country, Human Trafficking, especially on youths, women and children, has become a major challenge in contemporary Nigeria. The victims of

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PRAWA Engages in a “Police Against Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS” Project

In November, 2014 the newly constituted Gender Unit and the training department of the Nigeria Police Force were the primary beneficiaries of activities geared towards enlightenment and capacity building on

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Prison Congestion: CJN asks Magistrates to Liberalise Bail conditions

Worried by the rising figures of awaiting trial inmates in various prison facilities across the federation, Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has asked magistrates to stop imposing

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PRAWA’s Press Statement on the Occasion of 2014 Human Rights Day

2014 WORLD HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – PRAWA CALLS ON NIGERIA’s NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO PASS THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (ACJ) BILL  As the world marks the International Human Rights Day

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