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PPGLSL seeks to enhance knowledge, respect an observance of human rights, and to encourage exchange of information and experiences for the betterment of the citizenry through the instrumentality of law, education, enlightenment and humanitarianism

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INTRODUCTION
PPGLSL seeks to enhance knowledge, advocate for observance of human rights, and encourage exchange of information and experience for the betterment of the citizenry through instrumentality of law, education, enlightenment and humanification.

PPGLSL
PPGLSL seeks to enhance knowledge, respect an observance of human rights, and to encourage exchange of information and experiences for the betterment of the citizenry through the instrumentality of law, education, enlightenment and humanitarianism. Human Rights Advocacy
We organize volunteer outreach teams in each of the geo-political zones of Nigeria and work within their communities to promote and protect human rights, childrens rights, labour rights, good urban governance, womens political participation and legal interventions for the protection of at-risk populations.

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ABOUT PPGLSL

Our Mission
PPGLSL is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment, which we define as "earth rights." We specialize in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, training grassroots and community leaders, and advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, PPGLSL seeks to end earth rights abuses, to provide real solutions for real people, and to promote and protect human rights and the environment in the communities where we work.

VISION
To build a just society with respect for human rights and rule of law. Our vision includes:

Fostering local, regional and national cooperation in the NGO sector towards sustainable development through knowledge building and strategic action; Encouraging information exchange among various NGOs with same aims, objective and philosophy; Working to promote human rights, access to justice and development by building partnership between NGOs, CBOs, and the general public to secure a quality life of human dignity.

GOAL
To raise national awareness of the citizens' constitutional rights and on a long-term basis, mobilize and educate the public on human rights in order to remove legal, cultural, religious and other constraints against the attainment of economic and social justice and equity in the society.

PHILOSOPHY
Our philosophy is to provide focused quality assistance that brings about concrete results, which benefit the community and its citizens and to become the most strategic provider of the rights of the most vulnerable in the society.

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HUMAN RIGHTS, TRANPARENCY AND JUSTICE

"Generosity and caring for those in need (often summarized under the heading of 'widows and orphans'); giving bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty and hospitality to the wandering stranger; honesty; truthfulness; an ability to work with others; an ability to 'be a friend', a basic sense of fairness; a constructive attitude toward life in society; all these are Virtues ... By a similar token, one of the contributions of anthropological studies has been to remind us of the myriad ways in which cultures, through education and ritual, have endeavored to give socially relevant roles or work to their members, including in many cases those which 'modern' culture stigmatizes as deviant, disabled or insane." Mado Spiegler

PPGLSL (Justice Group) is an independent, non-governmental and not-for-profit voluntary initiative which was established in 2007 by Nigerians from different professional, cultural and social backgrounds to enhance knowledge, respect and observance of human rights, and to encourage exchange of information and experiences for the betterment of the citizenry through the instrumentality of law, education, enlightenment and humanitarianism. PPGLSL Justice Group membership is drawn from a rich blend of activists and other professionals working together on a shared commitment to justice, the rule of law and human dignity. The idea of the group was to build awareness about those rights as well as investigate and advocate various means for securing their implementation. In addition, our programs aim at broadening access of individuals and communities and strengthening their participation in the design and implementation of social and economic policies/programs which affect them. We work with communities and groups that cut across gender, literacy, age and social lines, and use focused group pilot projects to measure the impact our interventions are making in target communities.

Networking And Strategic Partners

PPGLSL Justice Group networks with bodies like the Kabissa U.S.A, NGO Coalition on International Criminal Court (CICC) the Hague, Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) Switzerland, Clean-up the World Australia, People's Decade for Human Rights Education (PDHRE), New York, GreenNet- West Africa, West African NGO Network (WANGONET), Citizens Forum for Constitutional Reform (CFCR) and other international non-governmental organisations that have similar vision, focus and ideas.

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OUR WORK
We document human rights and environmental abuses in countries where few other organizations can safely operate. We expose and publicize earth rights abuses through campaigns, reports and articles.

We organize the human rights and environmental activist communities around earth rights issues. We are at the forefront of the movement to hold corporations accountable for fair human rights, labor, and environmental practices no matter where they do business.

We litigate in Nigeria courts on behalf of people around the world whose earth rights have been violated by governments and transnational corporations.

We teach people about their earth rights and remedies, especially people living under repressive regimes. We train villagers and refugee women to testify at the United Nations and other international agencies. We run the PPGLSL Institute for activists in Africa.

We advocate with those who have been harmed, and fight for better earth rights protections at every level, from the local to the international.

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Training and Capacity Building

Justice Groups human rights education projects serve to energize and motivate communities to recognize human rights as a powerful tool for social action. The programs concentrate on the promotion and protection of fundamental rights and basic freedoms.

PPGLSL Institute
The objective of PPGLSL INSTITUTE is to train and support new generations of human rights educators, who will in turn establish such learning in their communities. The PPGLSL INSTITUTE program that focuses on international human rights standards, current human rights issues and human rights learning strategies. The exploration of human rights principles and instruments, ongoing critical reflection and inquiry and extensive sharing of experiences allow participants to strengthen their leadership capacity to engage in effective human rights learning.

PPGLSL INSTITUTE GOAL

To strengthen the capacity of human rights organisations to undertake human rights learning efforts in their various communities, aimed at fostering a global culture of human rights.

The PPGLSL INSTITUTE aims at enabling participating organisations to undertake more effective human rights education activities in their various countries and communities. To this end, the Program places a strong emphasis on the transfer of learning and on follow-up activities. Participants attending the Program will develop an Individual Action Plan for putting their learning into action as part of the training. Therefore, when submitting an application for one of our programs, organisations, together with the candidates they nominate to attend the Program, should consider how the transfer of their learning might take place within their organisation after the Program. This is expected to help the participants to integrate their experiences into their organisations work as well as building partnership and developing new programs in the field of human rights.

Human Rights Advocacy

Volunteer outreach teams in each of the geo-political zones of Nigeria work within their communities to promote and protect human rights, childrens rights, labour rights, good urban governance, womens political participation and legal interventions for the protection of at-risk populations.

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ADVOCATORS AND ACTIVIST

Jerry Harry
President
Mr. Jerry Harry is the President of PPGLSL and Country Partner of PPGLSL Nigeria. He is a former Audit Function Leader and Quality Leader for the Organization. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) with over 30 years experience. He has been advisory partner on a number of audits for financial services and other industries in Nigeria: his professional experience in recent years includes performing statutory audits for Central Bank of Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, UBA Plc, Afribank Plc, Skye Bank Plc, Ecowas Bank, Unic Insurance Plc, Leventis Expatriate Pension funds and others.

Joseph Olofinsola
Consulting Leader, PPGLSL
Joseph is the Functional Leader of the Consulting unit for PPGLSL. He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and Society for Human Resources Manager (SHRM). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and an MBA in Marketing with distinction. He has over eighteen years experience in consulting, out of which over ten years has been in human capital management and risk management consulting. Prior to his consulting experience, Joseph had 7 years of varied experience covering financial and treasury management as well as audit.

Anthony Olukoju
ERS Leader and Human Resources/Talent Leader, PPGLSL
Anthony is the Enterprise Risk Services Leader, PPGLSL. He also doubles as the Human Resources/Talent Leader, PPGLSL. He is a Partner with 15 years experience in assurance and advisory services, internal audit, Sarbanes Oxley Act attestation and readiness, IT internal audit and control assurance. He has extensive diversified client services experience in auditing, accounting, finance, and consulting. He participated in PPGLSLs Global Development Program between January 1999 and April 2001 in the commonwealth of The Bahamas.

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