Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Friday, November 8, 2019 organized sensitization on human rights for hundreds of students of Birabi Memorial Grammar School Bori-Ogoni, Rivers State. The sensitization is part of a project being implemented by Advocacy Centre in collaboration with Society for Women and Youths Affairs (SWAYA) with the support of Development…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has trained youths involved in acts of oil theft and illegal crude oil refining in Bayela State on alternative means of livelihoods. The event which held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Monday, October 7, 2019 had crude oil refiners and traders including women from communities in Bayelsa…
Youths and and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Sunday, October 6, 2016 took to radio Bayelsa and sensitized the audience on the danger and ills of oil theft, artisanal refining and environmental pollution in the Niger Delta. The program which started on radio Bayelsa, Glory, 97.1FM Yenagoa by 1:30PM lasted till 2PM and featured the…
ADVOCACY CENTRE SENSITIZES STUDENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN RIVERS STATE ADVOCACY CENTRE on Monday, September 30, 2019 organized and sensitised over 1,000 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Rumuokwuta, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Human Rights. The program tagged “Sensitization and Awareness Creation on human rights among youths and students in Rivers State” also had…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) joined other organisations, activists, environmental justice advocates and climate change campaigners to mark the 2019 International Day of Peace. The theme of this year’s edition of Peace Day which started in 1981 following a United Nations’ Resolution is “Climate Action for Peace”. The street walk in Port Harcourt, the…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on September 12, 2019 organised a training and capacity development workshop for local government legislators in Rivers State. The workshop which held at Visa Karena Hotel Port Harcourt was organised in collaboration with Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD). (L-R:…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 organized training for University Students in Rivers State to create awareness on Human Rights among the youths. The event was held at Ignatius Ajuru University of Education organized in partnership with Society for Women and Youths Affairs (SWAYA). The program which is tagged “Sensitization…
On Friday, March 29, 2019, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC), the facilitator of Platform for the Coordination of Niger Delta Ex-Artisanal Refiners Forum organized a 1-day sensitization workshop on artisanal oil refining in Rivers State. The workshop which was also used for the presentation of pilot findings on livelihoods in Bayelsa state held in…
Nigeria’s people of Ogoni have a history of environmental pollution following decades of oil mining that terminated in 1993 followings that ousting of Shell that operated in the area. Decades after, the federal government commissioned the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to scientifically assess the level of environmental pollution in the area leading to the…
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