We are part of the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa, Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Nigeria Bar Association Human Rights Committee (Port Harcourt Branch), CSO I-Report Platform/CIEPD Election Situation Room, Network of Police Reform in Nigeria, Transition Monitoring Group, Civic Space Watch Cluster etc.
Pilex Centre For Civic Education Initiative
Pilex Centre was registered in July 2023 and within a twinkling of an eye, we are everywhere, tirelessly working to make life better for humanity.
In the month of September 2023, we broke into Kaduna, Nigeria to profile/verify Human and Environmental Rights Defenders who had suffered reprisal attacks from 2022 to 2023 and we recorded 160 cases of such incidents that led to the death/injury of affected defenders. It may interest you to know that global reporters of such incidents have not been capturing Nigeria and Africa in their yearly reports.
Hence the support from Green Advocates/Mano River Union to undertake the said task. We completed that project on September 28, 2023 and produced a report which we are yet to publish.
Pushing forward into 2024, we secured our international Pilex Secretariat at 40b Wogu Street D.line, Port Harcourt, Nigeria and hit the ground running with our Legal Trainee program and RIV 3 Project (focused on Environmental Impact Assessment and litigation in oil and gas extractive sector) sponsored by Advocates for Community Alternative (ACA) and Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA).