The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development has called on the Nigerian police to re-open its investigation of the murder of Dele Giwa, the late co-founder of Newswatch Magazine, and prosecute those who were responsible for his death.
In a statement issued to commemorate today's 25th anniversary of Mr. Giwa's assassination by a parcel bomb in his home in 1986, CEHRD recalled that the event took place during the Ibrahim Babangida dictatorship.
The concert was one of support and also of invitation to the government by the people of the Port Harcourt waterfront communities to hear the call that "Housing is a Human Right".
Dos jóvenes ogoni, Goteh Keenam y Dambani Kuenu, oriundos de Zor-Sogho, en el estado de Rivers, en Nigeria fueron asesinados por la policía durante una protesta. Los dos protestaban contra un plan estatal para reubicar el cuartel militar Bori, que alberga la Segunda Brigada Anfibia, y actualmente está situado en la ciudad de Port Harcourt, en territorio ogoni.
Read a recent blog post by Serval Project founder Dr. Paul Gardner-Stephen.
The Media for Justice Project has partnered with Serval to use their BatPhone software as a way to keep our participants communicating without having to use the traditional GSM (mobile phone) network.
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Mobile activists at work documenting the World Habitat Day march and rally on October 3rd, 2011. The activists also used Serval BatPhone software to create an autonomous mesh network throughtheir telephones and communicate and coordinate amongst the group.
Based in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the Media Awareness and Justice Initiative works with groups and social movements working together for social, economic, cultural and environmental justice by helping them use media and communication technologies to inform, organize, mobilize and further their struggles to create a better world.