Few days after an Urban Security Summit organized by Spaces for Change | S4C in August 2018 exposed the injustices perpetrated by Nigerian security operatives in Lagos’ informal settlements, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) announced its intention to set up an investigative panel to redress human rights violations committed by members of the Special…
Traders and shop owners at Orie Amaraku Market, in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State are still counting their losses months after their community market was demolished on the orders of the Rochas Okorocha-led Imo State Government. As with the majority of the demolitions carried out across the state, government forces…
On the invitation of the Lagos State Government, SPACES FOR CHANGE|S4C officially presented its plans to draft the Guidelines on Forced Evictions at the Monthly Interactive Session of Stakeholders & Community Development Practitioners in Lagos State held on October 26, 2017. The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Communications and Communities specially invited S4C to the forum. S4C team…
SPACES FOR CHANGE is pleased to join the Fund for Global Human Rights’ vast network of grantees around the world. Since 2003, the Fund for Global Human Rights (the Fund) has had one goal: to move human rights forward by providing resources and tools to the people and organizations on the ground who have real potential…
40 children, aged 2 – 11, that reside in Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, attended the know-your-rights party Spaces for Change | S4C organized for them in commemoration of the 2016 Children’s Day. Displaced since September 18, 2015 by the Ojora Chieftaincy Family in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, these kids live with their…
Spaces for Change’s director, Victoria Ohaeri was a guest analyst on Silverbird Television’s (STV’s) special media parley to commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, and 365 days of a change of government in Nigeria. In a live broadcast on Sunday, May 29, 2016, Ms. Ohaeri and Rtd. Colonel Majoyegbe assessed the effectiveness of the legal infrastructure for conflict…
Spaces for Change, the children and friends of AICE pensioners are deeply concerned about the continuing intimidation, land-grabbing, eviction threats and more particularly, the February 15, 2016 scheduled demolition of Shell Camp, Alvan Staff Quarters, Owerri ordered by Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha. Alvan Staff Quarters is home to the retired lecturers, professors and administrators…
With a view toward the exploration of a lasting solution to the recurrent forced evictions in Badia, the Lagos State Government facilitated an urgent dialogue on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, involving relevant state agencies, specifically, the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Housing, Ministry of Land, Department of Civic Engagement, the Ojora…
Friends of Badia East from across the civil society have come together to strongly condemn the forced evictions that began in Badia East, Lagos State, on 18 September 2015. Once again, thousands of families have been rendered homeless at the peak of torrential rainfall, leaving scores of women and children to sleep under makeshift shelters…