End Discrimination, Address Inequality To Curb Human Rights Violation — NHRC

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, has called on stakeholders to put an end to
structural discrimination, ethnicity, nepotism, hatred and
intolerance to curb human rights violations.

Speaking, yesterday, at the celebration of the 2020
International Human Rights Day in Abuja, he said equality and
non-discrimination were core requirements for a post-COVID-19
recovery.

He said there was the need to address the issue of inequalities
by promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights of
the people.

He called for an end to sexual and gender-based violence,
stressing the need to create an environment where every segment of
society, especially women, boys and girls, would have equal
opportunity to realise their full potentials in dignity and
contribute equally to national development.

On her part, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Michelle Bachelet, called for increase and intensify in the resolve
and efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals which are
a concrete agenda for universal human rights.

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, has called on stakeholders to put an end to
structural discrimination, ethnicity, nepotism, hatred and
intolerance to curb human rights violations.

Speaking, yesterday, at the celebration of the 2020
International Human Rights Day in Abuja, he said equality and
non-discrimination were core requirements for a post-COVID-19
recovery.

He said there was the need to address the issue of inequalities
by promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights of
the people.

He called for an end to sexual and gender-based violence,
stressing the need to create an environment where every segment of
society, especially women, boys and girls, would have equal
opportunity to realise their full potentials in dignity and
contribute equally to national development.

On her part, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Michelle Bachelet, called for increase and intensify in the resolve
and efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals which are
a concrete agenda for universal human rights.