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UNODC Commemorates International Human Rights Day: Interview with the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission On International Human Rights Day, UNODC sat down with Mr. Anthony Ojukwu, Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to discuss the importance of human rights when countering the threat of terrorism. Mr. Ojukwu was appointed Executive Secretary in 2018 and leads NHRC s work in protecting and promoting human rights in Nigeria. UNODC: The 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is celebrated on 10 December 2023. How does the Declaration guide the work of the NHRC? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the foundational documents of the Nigerian constitution and necessitated the establishment of an institution to protect human rights - without it, there would be no NHRC in Nigeria today. For those of us who work at the NHRC, we therefore hold the Declaration very dearly. It s a reference point for our

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