Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Thursday, November 19, 2020 witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony of Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development’s (CEHRD’S) Fish Farm project being set up for some artisanal crude oil refiners in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State as alternative means of livelihoods to disabuse their minds from returning…
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…
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,…
A PRESENTATION ON “LINKAGES BETWEEN OGONI CLEAN-UP AND ARTISANAL REFINING” BY FYNEFACE DUMNAMENE FYNEFACE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, YOUTHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CENTRE (YEAC) DURING A VIRTUAL “MEDIA BRIEFING ON COMMUNITY CONCERNS IN THE OGONI CLEAN-UP PROCESS” ORGANIZED BY KABETKACHE WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCE CENTRE WITH SUPPORT FROM CORDAID HELD ON MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2020. INTRODUCTION/SUMMARY OF…
As part of its objective/thematic advocacy areas of “environment, livelihoods and indigenous rights” and mandates to “strengthen community-based advocacy in the Niger Delta through multi-stakeholders’ engagement with media and legislative activism for development”, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Monday, February 17, 2020 joined other civil society organizations and stakeholders on an environmental legislative…
The paramount ruler of Kporghor community in Tai Local Government area of Rivers State, Chief Emmanuel Gbarabulah has called on the Federal Government to hasten the implementation of its policy on modular refineries for youths involved in artisanal crude oil refining in the Niger Delta. Chief Gbarabulah made the call on Sunday, February 9, 2020…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC), on International Human Rights’ Day, Tuesday, December 10, 2019 in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital flagged off earlier publicized campaign for the Mobilization and Sensitization of ONE MILLION YOUTH VOLUNTEERS AS HUMAN RIGHT DEFENDERS AND PROMOTERS in the Niger Delta. The One Million Youth Volunteers’ Network would also…
Press Release HYPREP: DO NOT AWARD NEW CLEAN-UP CONTRACTS WITHOUT ADDRESSING EMERGENCY MEASURES IN OGONILAND! While speaking on an Environmental Parliament program on WISH, 99.5FM Port Harcourt by 10AM this morning, I called on Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) NOT to award new clean-up contracts in Ogoni without addressing issues around emergency measures as recommended…
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…
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