Mission
Partnership for Justice is a non-profit membership organization of professionals who share a commitment to equality, justice and globalization of human rights standards. PJ works at all levels to offer services to victims of human rights violations and create linkages for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria. PJ was duly registered with CAC on 9th of November 2006, limited by Guarantee and was accorded consultative status with the ECOSOC-UN in 2016. PJ has 4 thematic areas and under its International Law and Public/Foreign Policy Advocacy Programme, PJ’s aim is to foster the culture of implementing regional and international human rights standards by expanding the capacity of policy makers, judicial officers and advocates to understand and apply principles of international human rights standards in policies and domestic courts; Enhance civil society engagement with the National Action Plan on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and other national, regional and international human rights instruments and equally engage the African Commission, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Universal Periodic Review to hold the government accountable to its human rights commitment. The main mandate for this project is to monitor and document national, regional and international mechanisms, instruments, and Nigerian engagement with the UN and relevant international bodies and also, strategic advocate for the integration of human rights and foreign policy in Nigeria. It simply requires maintaining of inter governmental partnership on the process of national, regional and international human rights mechanism.
