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SERAP urges President Muhammadu Buhari to obey judgements of the ECOWAS Court on cyberstalking and related matters.

SERAP also urged him to “enforce and implement the ECOWAS Court judgment compelling your government to respect, protect and promote freedom of expression..."

A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria has said the country has a lot to learn at the second Summit for Democracy in the United States.   The summit to be held from March 28 to 30 is a discussion on the tensions between security, democracy and civil liberties, the costs and benefits of total defense/comprehensive security models.   It will be co-hosted by the United States, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, and Republic of Zambia.  

These six countries like many of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), are no strangers to military coups. Indeed, military

The review of data across West Africa by Mathias Hounkpe shows that the majority of people in the region, 75%, strongly support democracy.

The Senegalese legislative elections will be held on Sunday, 31 July 2022 to renew for five (5) years the one hundred and sixty-five (165) members of the National Assembly. The distribution of the members of the National Assembly will be done according to a parallel voting system in fifty-four (54)…

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to immediately take measures to ensure the execution of the judgment of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice on the Twitter Ban Suits. The ECOWAS Court ruled on July 14 that the indefinite suspension of access to Twitter in Nigeria by Federal

ECOWAS Moves to Strengthen Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanisms on Gender, Governance and Human Rights In furtherance of the drive to engender a more stable, peaceful region, the ECOWAS Commission is building the capacities of the ECOWAS National Response Mechanism Coordination Centers (NCCRMs) through a Workshop which began…

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice’s conference on the regional integration model has ended with participants calling on member States to publish, ratify and domesticate the ECOWAS Revised Treaty. A communique adopted at the end of the conference noted the importance of an enabling legal environment in the integration arrangement.…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to enforce the judgment by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, compelling him to delete the offence of ‘insulting or stalking public officials online’ from the Cybercrime Act.