HRAN Charter
The Human Rights Agenda Network (HRAN) emerged from the informal collaboration of human rights NGOs to prepare an alternative report to the Nigeria’s Universal Progress Review (UPR) report in March 2009, and also in engaging Nigeria with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in respect of excesses of the security agencies in the north central region and other extra-judicial executions. In 2011, the network put together a Human Rights Agenda (2011-2014) for Nigeria, which identifies milestones in human rights and promotion in Nigeria based on the National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Nigeria (2009-2013) and the recommendations accepted by Nigeria at the Universal Periodic Review of Nigeria (UPR) in 2009.
Since 2012, HRAN has been working towards establishing itself as a permanent and respected network through which civil society and other organisations and activists working on human rights issues can better communicate, coordinate and collaborate on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria. This Charter sets out the agreed governance and operating arrangements that have been agreed by the HRAN membership, which are intended to provide a framework that will ensure the network carries out its activities efficiently and effectively, in an accountable, transparent and independent manner.
