About Global Tolerance
We are also a crime prevention advocacy organization that uses Life in Prison Interventions to sensitize the public to the dangers of crime. The organization undertakes this initiative through the screening of prison documentaries in schools, churches, mosques, communities, and other trouble spots in Nigeria. Our programmes have not only served as a crime deterrent tool, but has been instrumental in highlighting:
- The need for the abolition of the death penalty.
- Major infractions of the law in Nigeria’s criminal justice delivery system
- Abuse of the rights of Prisoners.
- The conditions in Nigeria prisons
- The need for a review of Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
Since
14
Years
Our Focus
Prison Reforms
Death Penalty
Criminal Justice
Our Projects
Petty offenders’ Project
Post judgment fines, juvenile, women, police bail. Global Tolerance’s Petty Offenders project has led to the release of many petty offenders jailed for their inability to pay court fines imposed on them.
Entrepreneurial Training
Organize various forms of Trainings for prisoners in Nigeria.
Life In Prison Documentaries
Educate the public on the consequences of crime through the screening of life in prison documentaries.
Life Outside the Prisons
Our philanthropy project, premised on the idea that there are many in Nigeria who live virtually in prisons outside prison because of poverty, has provided livelihood support for many poor individuals and families.
Health Check Programme
With the understanding that detention in whatever form is injurious to health, Global Rights has gone beyond the prisons. Through our Health Check Programme, we have come to the aid of many Nigerians who have been detained in hospitals .
Education Sponsorship
The Nigerian Prisons affords inmates the opportunity to enrol for WAEC/ GCE, JAMB, and Open University. We sponsor the enrolment for these examinations and assist the successful candidates to pay their tuition fees, textbooks, and other study materials.
The Death Penalty
The weight of the death penalty is disproportionally carried by those with less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds or belonging to a racial, ethnic or religious minority. Death penalty is the ultimate, irrevocable punishment and the risk of executing an innocent person can never be eliminated.
- Establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.
- Commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment.
- Abolish the death penalty for all crimes.
- Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.
- Make available information on the use of the death penalty and relevant related issues, which can contribute to informed and transparent national debates on its abolition.
- Ensure that the criminal justice system is sufficiently resourced and capable of investigating crimes effectively; supporting victims and ensuring that suspects have a fair trial without recourse to the death penalty.
- Immediately remove all provisions in national laws that violate international human rights law, in particular by abolishing all provisions that allow the death penalty for crimes.