As the World Marks International Youth Day 2020 today, August 12 with the theme “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) wants the government at all levels in the country to prioritize youth issues. The youths are said to be leaders of tomorrow but viewing their contribution from global perspectives…
Today, Tuesday, August 11, 2020 Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) took its COVID-19 Awareness and Sensitization Campaign to Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State after flag-off on July 31, 2020 in Bori, Khana Local Government Area. The COVID-19 awareness and sensitization campaign which took place in the Igbodo Community Makeshift market that exist…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) recalls that the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) assessment report on Ogoni was published on August 4, 2011, nine years ago. We also recalled that the audit of Ogoni environment followed years of struggle premised on environmental degradation, economic strangulation and political marginalization of the area which came to…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) in partnership with Land is Life, USA on July 31, 2020 flagged off COVID-19 Awareness and Sensitization Campaign among the indigenous peoples of Rivers State, Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The campaign followed observations through baseline studies that the closure of some markets in parts of Rivers State by…
All is now set for Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) to flag off its COVID-19 Awareness and Sensitization Campaign among the indigenous peoples of Rivers State, Niger Delta region of Nigeria. ADVOCACY CENTRE had observed, through baseline studies that although the Rivers State Government shutdown many markets and remains closed since March 2020 as…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) in our media statement on June 5, 2020 to mark this year’s World Environment Day had called on the Rivers State Government to provide safe pipe-borne water for Rivers people under the “Urban Sector and Port Harcourt Water and Sanitation Project” using the World Bank and African Development Bank…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) in partnership with Society for Women and Youth Affairs on Monday, July 20, 2020 organized training workshop for youths on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Peace-building mechanisms in the Niger Delta. The workshop which held at Green Palm Hotel, Bori-Ogoni was attended by delegates from Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo,…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has taken steps to immortalize one of Niger Delta’s highly respected Human Rights Defender, Environmental Justice Activist and Executive Director of the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL), Barrister Anyakee Nsirimovu who passed on in May 2020. The event which took place on Friday, July 3, 2020…
I am ‘provoked’ to write this opinion piece after reading many reports so far and observing how the Rivers State Government is struggling almost on daily basis to defend and justify its new flyover projects and the ‘benefits’ that ‘comes’ with them. I was particularly forced to write this piece and offer my alternative development…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commence a one-week walk against rape, sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) in Nigeria tagged “ONE WEEK ACTIVISM AGAINST RAPE AND SGBV”. The Commission embarked on this advocacy following an upsurge in cases of rape, sexual and gender based violence across the country in the wake of the…
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