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Recovery from COVID-19: NHRC urges stakeholders to address inequalities.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has called on governments  and other stakeholders to address the issue of inequalities, as this would help to recover from the pandemic crisis faster.

The commission made the call on Thursday in Lagos while marking the 2020 International Human Rights Day, stressing that Nigeria  must address the inequality fuelled by the pandemic through  promotion and protection of economic, social, and cultural rights.

Dec. 10th of every year was marked as International Human Rights Day, where NHRC,  Civil Society organisations always carried out solidarity events for victims.

In Lagos State, the staff of NHRC had a road walk-out show with their Orange T-shirt with the inscription: Say no to sexual and gender based violence “

The Coordinator of the commission in Lagos, Mr Lucas Okoyejo, who read the Executive Secretary statement,  Mr Tony Ojukwu, said the theme was in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said that the theme drew attention to the need to recover and build back better by ensuring Human Rights are at the centre of the recovery initiatives.

“We can only achieve our common global goals if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched systematic and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination.

“As we celebrate 2020 international human rights day, the commission enjoins all stakeholders to make concerted efforts to join the rest of the world to do the following.

“End discrimination of any kind: Structural discrimination, ethnicity, nepotism, hatred and intolerance have fuelled the COVID-19 crisis. Equality and non-discrimination are core requirements for a post-COVID recovery,” the commission noted

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