10th December 2010 Chevening, UK
My name is Francis Moneke, Chevening Scholar 2010. I have an LLM in International Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London. As we celebrate this year’s international human rights day, I wish to call the attention of the international community to the massive economic discrimination going on in Nigeria. Increasingly, the poor and the […]
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8th December 2010 Geneva, Switzerland
I hope you’re all keeping warm. Like some other places in Europe, winter arrived particularly early in Geneva this year and caught the usually well prepared Swiss road and rail and services off guard last week. I miss the lengthy conversations about the weather which I used to hear wherever I went back home in […]
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5th November 2010 Chevening, UK
I wanted to call this blog "the Clash and human rights" but Malaysian Chevening scholar Shazeera Zawawi wrote it so she gets to decide; The title of this piece of intellectual pursuit is a tribute to a close friend’s response to my recent announcement that I will be furthering my post graduate study in Applied […]
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20th October 2010 Chevening, UK
The Centre for Social Justice & Human Rights (CSJHR) works to promote social justice and human rights in Nigeria. It was set up by Chevening alumnus Francis Moneke. Francis writes about the centre below; Poverty and human rights violations have become rampant in Nigeria due to pervasive corruption and impunity among those who exercise public […]
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10th September 2010
I have written before about diplomacy and human rights in my Spanish blog . But I thought I would return to the charge following a recent interesting article by William Hague, the British Foreign Secretary. Mr Hague’s article was prompted by the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan, and the generous response of the British […]