ABUJA, Nov. 11 (EconoTimes) — Nigeria and India signed a cooperation pact between their national human rights commissions, with officials saying it is intended to strengthen institutional capacity through shared work.
The High Commission of India in Abuja announced Tuesday that Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and India’s National Human Rights Commission signed the memorandum of understanding in Abuja.
Guardian Nigeria and Premium Times reported that Nigeria’s NHRC Executive Secretary Anthony Okechukwu Ojukwu described cooperation in building institutional capacity, sharing working methods and conducting joint studies, along with discussion of human-rights concerns in regional and international forums.
India’s NHRC Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian framed the agreement as cooperation among countries in the Global South, Guardian Nigeria and Premium Times reported.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs dates the country’s diplomatic presence in Lagos to November 1958, two years before Nigeria’s independence. It says the countries elevated ties to a strategic partnership in 2007 and that India has supported Nigerian capacity building through the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation program since 1964.
