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Partnership To Deliver Nigeria Project
October 2009
Agreements with leading organisations in Nigeria have brought SCT ’s ambitious plans for its first national Speakers’ Corner initiative several steps closer to realisation.
ActionAid, the Nigerian Bar Assocation and the Nigerian Labour Congress have all pledged practical support in establishing a vehicle for the project in Abuja and they have joined a range of civil society organisations in setting up a working group to develop plans for the project and for its launch and subseqent roll-out. It is now hoped that a Trust can be establised in Nigeria and a national Speakers’ Corner Committee recruited by Spring 2010 with a project launch taking place in the second half of the year.
Freedom of Expression
"Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democratic life. It is by the free exchange of ideas among citizens about how they should live together and how they should be governed that we create and sustain the democratic society. So the rights to free association and expression are scarcely less important than the right to live in peace and free from want."
The Hyde Park Tradition
