PRESS RELEASE
10 December 2025 | Aba, Abia State
CHARS-Africa Marks International Human Rights Day and Concludes the 2025 16 Days of Activism
The African Centre for Human Advancement and Resource Support (CHARS-Africa) joins the global community in commemorating International Human Rights Day and marking the end of the 2025 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). In alignment with this year’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) theme, “Human Rights: Our Everyday Essentials,” CHARS-Africa reasserts that human dignity, personal safety, access to justice, and equality before the law remain inalienable and non-negotiable rights owed to every individual, particularly survivors of gender-based violence.
Importantly, CHARS-Africa is today also formally represented at the EU Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (EU RoLAC) Programme’s high-level event on GBV and the UDHR commemoration, held at Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, reinforcing our national advocacy presence and commitment to collaborative, multi-stakeholder human rights engagement.
From 25 November to 10 December 2025, CHARS-Africa implemented a series of coordinated interventions focused on survivor-centred protection and justice. These actions included:
✓ Confidential and rights-sensitive documentation of GBV reports
✓ Immediate psychosocial support to stabilise survivors
✓ Referral for medical examination and treatment
✓ Submission of formal petitions to law-enforcement agencies, with copies forwarded to relevant oversight and support bodies
Throughout the advocacy period, the organisation consistently upheld its institutional values of transparency, accountability, and inclusive governance, ensuring that all survivors — irrespective of background or status — received equitable access to support, representation, and essential services.
CHARS-Africa calls on government agencies, legislators, institutions, and community actors to strengthen legal protections, improve survivor-centred response systems, and uphold human rights as daily essentials that must be respected, protected, and fulfilled across all levels of governance.
As the year concludes, CHARS-Africa renews its commitment to expanding support services for survivors, advancing transparent and accountable governance, and deepening its advocacy for justice, equality, and human advancement across Nigeria.
Signed:
Amaka Biachi, Esq.
Executive Director, CHARS-Africa
Email: charsafrica.ng@gmail.com
