Thank you for visiting the new Internet site of SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS & ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT (SERAP). As an up-to-date human rights non-governmental organization, we want to give you the opportunity to stay in touch with our organization and our activities. A new content management system will enable us to always keep you up to date.
At present, our web site is still under construction. We are making an effort to present you with up-to-date information about our organization and our activities as soon as possible. At this point we can provide you with information regarding the mission of our organization: We are dedicated to promoting transparency and accountability in the use of Nigeria’s natural resources. We believe that Nigeria’s large natural resource base should be used to meet the basic needs of its population. A corruption-free society is central to the citizens’ enjoyment of human rights, including economic and social rights. We are committed to increasing the legal protection for economic and social rights, and to securing respect for these rights.
We are also committed to promoting the public awareness of anti-corruption laws and policies, and to securing the full implementation of these laws. We are dedicated to encouraging reforms of anti-corruption laws, and to encouraging Nigeria to ratify international human rights treaties and international conventions against corruption.
Check this site later for more details, please.
In the meantime you can reach us at +2348026888407; +2341-4714996; +2341-7926348. We are looking forward to hearing from you. You can also contact us at our e-mail address: info@serap-nigeria.org.
If you are not familiar with our organization and your first contact with us is online: We would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.
In brief, you should know the following about us: our organization was established in 2004 to promote transparency and accountability in the public and private sectors through human rights.
In a country where systemic corruption and the resulting poverty, inequality and discrimination deprive many Nigerians of dignity and freedom to explore ways towards development and prosperity, SERAP seeks to promote the inalienable economic and social rights of the citizens to housing, education, health, food, work and an adequate standard of living. We work to hold government and public officials at the local, state and federal levels accountable for acts of corruption and socio-economic rights violations.
In Nigeria, economic and social rights are generally deemed impossible to enforce legally. SERAP seeks to demonstrate that those rights are well established in international law, and to promote their constitutionalization and enforcement nationally.
SERAP also brings petitions before regional and international bodies that monitor state compliance with economic and social rights.
SERAP’s work is divided into three program areas: 1. Research & Publications program 2. Litigation & Advocacy program 3. Education & Awareness program.
In the absence of reliable data on socio-economic conditions of people, SERAP’s Research & Publications program focuses on analysing laws, institutions and practices facilitating corruption and contributing to the violations of economic and social rights.
Research is also vital for our monitoring and advocacy efforts. Our Litigation & Advocacy program combines the strategy of publicity, lobbying, litigation, legal services, legal procedures and reforms; grass-root mobilization and campaigns; to demand accountability from government with respect to economic and social rights violations and non-enforcement of anti-corruption laws and standards.
Our Education & Awareness program seeks to raise public awareness through conferences, seminars, and through engaging in media and publicity activities-practical guides and educational materials on the promotion of socio-economic rights and existing laws pertaining to corruption and the underlying issues they address.
Through its "Join up" to the Stop Corruption Campaigns Network, the Education & Awareness program mobilizes the public to send emails and letters to their local, state and federal government officials to ask questions regarding the spending of public resources; to put pressure on them to commit to greater transparency and accountability; and to work to improve the socio-economic conditions of people.
SERAP’s new office is: 4 Akintoye Shogunle Street off Unity Road off Awolowo Way, P.O. Box 14037 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
