{"id":988700,"date":"2023-02-08T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=24169"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:46:34","slug":"odinakaonye-odi-lagi-from-nigeria-tells-her-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/08\/odinakaonye-odi-lagi-from-nigeria-tells-her-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Odinakaonye \u2018Odi\u2019 Lagi from Nigeria tells her story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yoO9MkRa3ew?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;hl=en&%23038;autohide=2&%23038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018<em>If we work together to make sure that issues are more visible, that happen in Africa, the civil society organisations, I think, will be achieving more<\/em>.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odinakaonye &#8216;Odi&#8217; Lagi is the programme director for the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI), Nigeria, and she works on promoting access to justice and legal aid for Nigerians. Citing the example of the Nigerian social movement to protest against the actions of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (known as the end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/endsars\">#EndSars<\/a> protests), which she says did not receive enough attention in the continent, she calls for civil society groups and activists across Africa to come together to shed more collective light on individual national struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ishr.ch\/defender-stories\/human-rights-defenders-story-odinakaonye-odi-lagi\/\">https:\/\/ishr.ch\/defender-stories\/human-rights-defenders-story-odinakaonye-odi-lagi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2023\/02\/08\/odinakaonye-odi-lagi-from-nigeria-tells-her-story\/\">Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If we work together to make sure that issues are more visible, that happen in Africa, the civil society organisations, I think, will be achieving more.\u2019 Odinakaonye \u2018Odi\u2019 Lagi is the programme director for the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI), Nigeria, and she works on promoting access to justice and legal aid for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743,3209,1424,2742,1277,57275,1629,57278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988711,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988700\/revisions\/988711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}