Projects
Canada-Africa Human Rights Engagements
Canada-Africa Human Rights Engagements
This is a research/dissemination network on Canada’s Rights Role in Sub-Saharan Africa (CARRISSA). The CARRISSA partnership is allowing three original partners (York University Canada, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Center for Social Justice), and our newer core partners (the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Riara University in Kenya, the University of Pretoria in South Africa, the University of Rwanda, the Pan African Lawyers Union, and the Initiatives for Child Rights), with eleven (11) participating faculty/activists, to expand and deepen our collaboration and research/knowledge mobilization(KMb)/training activities regarding Canadian/African human rights engagements. We have also recruited several government agencies and NGOs who will engage with us more informally in our KMb activities (e.g., by hosting some project dissemination seminars within their offices).
The COVID Law Series (May – November 2021)
The COVID Law Series
The #COVIDLawSeries is a free 9-episode video series covering legal issues surrounding COVID-19. It features expert dialogue on various legal issues such as labour and employment relations, implementation of COVID-19 vaccinations, legal requirement for COVID-19 status disclosure, the criminality of spreading false information on COVID, rules of travel compliance to COVID-19 regulations, COVID-19, and disability rights, etc. Experts that are being featured on the show include specialist lawyers, medical experts, prominent scientists, and celebrities who address legal issues around the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria and beyond. The #COVIDLawSeries is providing substantive and analytical information on the law as it relates to COVID-19.
The Law on Face Masks (To Wear or Not to Wear?)
Episode One
Punishment for Not taking the COVID-19 Vaccine (Risk Versus Liability)
Episode Two
The Crime of Spreading False Information on COVID-19
Episode Three
COVID-19 and Disability Rights in Nigeria
Episode Four
Rules for Travelling during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Episode Five
Legal Requirements on COVID-19 Status Disclosure
Episode Six
Special Ed1: Questions from Town – Addressing COVID Law Questions
Episode Seven
Wills and Intestacy in the Plight of Deaths from COVID-19
Episode Eight
Special Ed2: “My Vaccination Story”
Episode Nine
Some news on the COVID Law Series
- YBTC News Nigeria: Unveiling the #COVIDLawSeries: https://ybtcnews.com/covidlawseries/
- The Cable News: https://www.thecable.ng/jake-effoduh-human-rights-lawyer-launches-covid-law-series-to-educate-nigerians
- Daily Concord News: https://dailyconcordnews.com/2021/09/24/unveiling-the-covidlawseries/
- The Jour: https://thejour.com/health/unveiling-the-covidlawseries/
- Nairaland: https://www.nairaland.com/6769454/unveiling-covidlawseries
#Law2Go (Started in 2017 as a Summer Fellow at the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab)
#Law2Go
#Law2Go is a free library of human rights law and legal services in Nigeria. The platform is still under construction but already provides human rights legal information and services.