SOLI SOLI SOLI SOLIDARITY FOR EVER

TODAY DECEMBER 16th at NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION LAGOS OFFICE

 December 16, 2013. The people of Atiporome, Araromi Ale, and Mowo phase 11 in Badagry protest to NHRC LAGOS OFFICE their home was forcefully evicted on16th ,17th of December 2013.
Today marks the remembrance of wrongful demolition of these communities; makes it two years that the people have been living without shelter.
RURAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (RUDI) marched in solidarity with the Badagry people to NHRC Lagos office as we mark two years of no shelter, two years of living in the open under the harsh climate weather with children like refugees in their father's land Nigeria.

                                                  HUMAN RIGHT DAY OUT DOOR ADVOCACY

The World Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on the 10th December. It commemorates the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Rural and Urban Development Initiative (RUDI) a Non Governmental Organization is a movement of the urban poor for the dignity and development of marginalized communities in the state.The theme of this year’s commemoration is 

"Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always.” And is aimed at promoting and raising awareness of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) created in the aftermath of WWII, the two Covenants along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights became the International Bill of Human Rights setting out the civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights that are the birth right of all human beings.
As is usual, we are commemorating this day with the poor, marginalized and vulnerable people in Lagos (Ijora Badia East, NPA Quarters Bar beach, Oko Baba Ebute metta with others displaced and evicts) and  having a world human rights day’s lecture at Jones Street, Ebute-Metta (West), Lagos