Nigeria: Human Rights Chief, Odinkalu, Tipped for Global Award

14 October 2014

The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu has emerged one of the three qualifiers in a roll call of the world's leading human rights champions.

Mr. Odinkalu, whose board helped revitalized a moribund National Human Rights Commission in Nigeria, came second in a vote tally among seven contestants in the race for the 2014 edition of the coveted Human Rights Tulip Award.

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