The management of the Amnesty Worldwide (AI) Nigeria, has mentioned one of many causes for launching Human Rights Clinic on the College of Calabar (UNICAL) was to assist in checking sexual molestation of feminine college students by the establishment’s lecturers who flout college’s extant legal guidelines.
Employees Adviser to AI, Barr. Maxwell Eba, said this on Saturday in Calabar, Cross River State, whereas talking with journalists.
Eba, who spoke shortly after inaugurating Amnesty Worldwide Clinic executives on the UNICAL Centre for Basic Research and Communication Abilities, referred to as for attitudinal change from the newly inaugurated executives.
Eba, who doubles as deputy director, Centre for Basic Research, enumerated different social vices that the organisation will put an eagle eye, to incorporate; intercourse for grades and ‘sorting’, amongst others, to make sure that college students who graduate from the establishment go away with excessive ethical requirements.
Talking on the theme; “Empowering College students: Understanding and Asserting Your Human Rights on Campus”, the AI Employees Adviser mentioned: “As soon as you might be given duty to behave on behalf of the organisation, anticipate checks and balances to encompass you.
“Let’s assume on a scale when it comes to ethical values, you weighed earlier 60 per cent, now that you’ve grow to be a member of Amnesty Worldwide, it’s best to weigh above 100 per cent.
“You might be anticipated to keep up excessive degree of ethical requirements.That you simply now work for Amnesty Worldwide, that you’re a part of the UNICAL Clinic, it’s offers you entire burden to broaden your chest.
“No matter goes flawed along with your character and perspective, goes flawed with the picture of the affiliation. It’s the rationale you need to keep excessive degree of ethical values. Be accountable and aware of cater for different individuals.”
In his remarks, President of Amnesty Worldwide UNICAL Clinic, Miss Nwawube Obioma, promised to not put in her finest to make sure that the aim for which the clinic was launched isn’t defeated.
Obioma averred that the inauguration of the clinic within the campus will help college students of the establishment to have a platform to file in complaints each time they discover that their rights have been violated.
“We’re collaborating with different organisations, civil society organisations and NGOs to make sure that justice is served to college students in helpless scenario,” Obioma said.
