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The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has announced plans to raise N239.4 billion through a rights issue to existing shareholders. The bank in a statement on Thursday, said it is offering a rights issue of 6.83 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N35 per share…
Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
UMUAHIA – Senator Austin Akobundu, representing Abia Central Senatorial district has said that for an elected or appointed political office holder to succeed, critical issues of human capacity development as well as the welfare and wellbeing of the people must be in the front burner of any development oriented politician…
The aftermath of the Second World War witnessed the emergence and subsequent promulgation of many human rights treaties. The period also witnessed the creation of international human rights protection mechanisms, whose main objectives were to ensure that massive human rights violations which happened during the war would never happen again…
The Human Rights Act undermines Britain’s parliamentary democracy and common law tradition by placing the protection of human rights onto an unstable, frequently unknowable basis, says Yuan Yi Zhu In 1999, to protect victims of sexual assault from degrading treatment, parliament enacted legislation to protect complainants in sexual assault cases from being cross-examined in court…
Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen Heroes’ Affairs and Chairman of the International Humanitarian and Philanthropic Council (centre…
Canada’s foreign minister on Thursday expressed deep concern about “catastrophic” humanitarian conditions across Gaza and warned about “the life-threatening levels of acute malnutrition….