Human Rights Activities of the Council
a. The Council secured funding to lead a World Bank Project in Kaduna State on Civil access to Justice.
This project was executed through creation of Rights Awareness and promotion of Alternative
Dispute Resolution through Mediation at twenty (20) Legal Aid Centres across the state (16 at Local
Government Areas, 3 at Senatorial Districts and 1 in Ahmadu Bello University) to ensure that civil
access to justice reaches the poor. Twenty (20) centres had been commissioned as at 2014,
including that of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 2012.
Between 2015-2016,.A series of trainings have been undertaken for LEGAL aidcouncil
lawyers by the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) through the European Union
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