Today is Human Rights Day! With the theme for this year being “Our Freedom, Our Rights, Always”, the world has been advised to reflect on the meaning of Freedom. This year’s Human Rights Day also marks the launch of a year-long… Read More ›
Advocacy
Getting to point zero, Nigeria’s 2030 HIV/AIDS target
Nigeria joined the rest of the world to commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1 with the theme: ‘Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-Related Deaths’ by the year 2030. There is also a 2020 target to eliminate… Read More ›
Why we wear the Red Ribbon
I first saw the movie Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks (as Andrew Becket) and Denzel Washington (as Joe Miller, his solicitor) in secondary school. Tom Hanks played a very successful lawyer whose employment was wrongfully terminated when his employers discovered that… Read More ›
Colour me orange
Today, November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Woman and the beginning of the 16-Day Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign which runs till Human Rights Day on 10 December. This year, the United Nations Secretary… Read More ›
Colonisation Vs Immigration: A comical truth
In light of the new immigration policies and rules in the UK targeting migrants in the country, I thought to share this video clip which I feel explains the often ignored relationship between colonisation and immigration. Trevor Noah, the South African comedian, couldn’t have said it better. Although it… Read More ›
My Chatty Mind 