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WITCHCRAFT BRANDING: BRCI, PACT, and AFAW hold an interactive meeting between service providers and survivors of witchcraft branding in Calabar.
In the fight against Witchcraft Branding, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative in partnership with Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW) with support from Safe Child Africa, yesterday, organized an interactive meeting between Service providers and Survivors of Witchcraft Branding and some of their family members. The objective of the meeting was to create a forum for survivors…
Read MoreBRCI, Project Alert Visit Cross River Police Commissioner, Calls For Synergy
Two non-governmental organizations at the forefront of human rights defense, Project Alert and Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BRCI) have continued their advocacy visit, calling for synergy with the Nigerian Police Force. This was the high point in an advocacy visit by the NGOs to the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, CP Aminu Alhassan in…
Read MoreNGO End One Day Stakeholders Meeting In Calabar, Sue For Ways To Alleviate Poverty
Non-Governmental Organization ActionAid Nigeria, in partnership with Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BRCI), has ended its one-day stakeholders meeting on ways to alleviate poverty in local communities. The event was held at the conference room of the State Ministry of Justice, Calabar where the Partnership and Local Rights Program Manager, ActionAid Abuja, Nigeria Mr. Kehinde Arowosegbe,…
Read MoreAn initiative is securing justice for rape survivors but faces a heap of challenges
One Tuesday morning, 14-year-old Sarah Israel* sat at home waiting patiently for a verdict that would see her step father, 47-year-old Emmanuel Thompson Udo, who had sexually assaulted her either pay for his sins or walk free. When the report finally came, he got sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. The judgment came after about three…
Read MoreTrafficked Child Seeks Reunion With Parent
BRCI An eight years old child identified as Believe-In-God Mandu Chinedu who was trafficked to Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State from Imo State in May 2022 has sought a reunion with his parents. Believe-In-God who was rescued and currently taking shelter with a non-profit organization, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, BRCI, gave his…
Read MoreGirls Power Initiative (GPI) Ends One-Day Stakeholders Shared Learning Forum In Calabar
Girls Power Initiative, GPI, has ended its one-day stakeholders shared learning meeting on the Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement, SCALE project in Calabar, Cross River State. The forum was designed for beneficiaries and stakeholders who were selected and trained on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, SGBV, child early and forced marriage, gender equality and social…
Read MoreBRCI Rescues, Accommodate Two Girls Defiled By Their Father In Calabar.
Two teenagers, unnamed, were last weekend in Calabar, rescued and accommodated by a not-for-profit organization, the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, BRCI following reports of sexual and physical abuse by their father, Linus Samuel Sunday Ukum. Mr. Ukum, 40, a plumber and native of Nsit – Ubium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, who is…
Read More70-year-old man nabbed for sexually assaulting 12-old-girl in Calabar.
A 70-year-old man, Bassey Inyang, has been arrested on allegations of sexually assaulting a 12-old-girl in Calabar. It was gathered that the suspect carried out the act in his apartment at 14 Waddell Street, Mbukpa community in Calabar South local Council of Cross River State. A source, who lives in the neighbourhood, said the suspect was arrested…
Read MoreWitchcraft Branding: Man to die by hanging for killing 11 years old twins in Cross River State.
On Tuesday, February 15 2022. A man, Anyanime Festus was sentenced to death by hanging by Honorable Justice A. A. Onyebueke of Cross River State High Court, sitting in Akamkpa for killing his 11-year-old twin daughters, Mfoniso and Emediong Anyanime, after he dubbed them witches. Justice Agnes Onyebueke who delivered judgement on the matter with…
Read More2019 International Women’s Day Celebration
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights. After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women’s Day on February 28, 1909 in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Woman’s Conference suggested a Women’s Day be held annually. After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in…
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