Yesterday was world day for international justice.
It is an international day celebrated throughout the world on July
seventeenth to unite all who wants to support justice as well as
promote victims right.
Correspondent, Amaka Chibuzor Okoye looks into the significance of the
day more especially as it concerns the women, children, people with
disabilities and the poor.
International justice day also known as day of International Criminal
Justice helps to prevent serious crimes and those that put the peace,
security and well being of the world at risk
Speaking to newsmen on the significance of the day, the Vice President
of International Federation of Women Lawyers FIDA, Anambra State
Chapter, Barrister Helen Obi said that the day establishes the court
functions, jurisdiction and structure as well as International crimes
starting with genocide, crime against humanity, war crime and crime of
aggression.
Barrister Obi who went down memory lane on the level of justice
acquired by women in some spheres of life, disagree totally that women
are not given access to justice in Nigeria as many are facing
discrimatory cultural practices, negligence and poverty.
She explained that best interest of a child should be paramount in all
actions but regretted that many states have not domesticated the Child Right Act
because some aspects of the act are contrary to their beliefs and called for concentrations and fair hearing on everything that
concerns the women and children.
In his reaction, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on Disability
Matters, Barrister Chuks Ezewuzie noted that people living with
disabilities are fully in support of access to justice and have made
moves to secure witness box through the President of Customary Court,
lamenting that some people do not understand the need for people with
disabilities whom they often lockdown on.
Barrister Ezewuzie disclosed that many of the people living disabilities are trained to recognize and understand their environment, stressing that
no one should isolate or discriminate against them rather
to include them in all programmes.
On how the custodian of culture reacts to justice and fairness of
their subjects, the traditional ruler of Uke Kingdom, Igwe Charles
Agbala, pointed out that traditional rule’s in the state do hold
seminars and workshops on abolishment of some obnoxious practices that
trample on the right of the vulnerable, adding that there are
organs set up to bring justice to any aggressive person in the
community as he said that women now have rights to their husbands
property.
For a clergyman, Reverend Ben Osisioma, Christianity has guaranteed
the human rights of the ordinary citizen, stating that every individual
is worthy of respect as the church believes in the dignity of the
individual.
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