Africa: NHRC's Head Elected President of West Africa's Human Rights Institutions Network

West Africa’s rights network backs reparative justice

Africa: NHRC's Head Elected President of West Africa's Human Rights Institutions Network

He said his focus would include building the capacity of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) to be able to meet the ever-growing challenges of resourcing, governance and operations of NHRIs.

NNHRI-WA  Elects Ojukwu President As Whittal’s Tenure Elapsed

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nigeria, Dr. Tony Ojukwu OFR, SAN, has emerged as President of the Network of National Human Rights Institutions in West Africa (NNHRI-WA). Dr. Ojukwu’s emergence as the President of NNHRI-WA follows his election during the closing session of a three-day Regional Consultation of the Network, in Abuja. This marked the end of the tenure of his predecessor, Dr. Joseph Whittal…