Environmentalism
Environmentalism and the Law
The colloquium that opened the Center's environmental conversation — examining ecological degradation and the legal accountability owed to host communities across Nigeria.
Colloquium Archive
Five colloquia. One national conversation.
Since its founding, the Anah Center has convened five national colloquia in Nigeria — gathering jurists, scholars, policymakers and civil society to interrogate the questions shaping Nigerian justice.
Ahead of the agenda
Two gatherings that led the conversation on the environment
Two of the five colloquia were devoted to environmentalism and climate justice — opening a national debate well before it reached the mainstream agenda.
"The communities who contribute least to a changing climate carry its heaviest burdens."
Climate Justice
Climate Justice in Nigeria
The gathering that pressed the question further — how the law can reach, first, the communities most exposed to a changing climate.
The record
All five colloquia
- 01
Access to Justice
The First National Colloquium — Justice and the Nigerian Citizen
The Center's foundational gathering, bringing together jurists, practitioners and civil society to examine how ordinary Nigerians experience the justice system — and what enforcement of fundamental rights requires in practice.
- 02
Gender Equality
The Second National Colloquium — Gender, Law and Society
A colloquium devoted to the position of women and girls before the law, interrogating the gaps between constitutional guarantees and lived reality, and the reforms needed to close them.
- 03
Environmentalism
Climate & environmentThe Third National Colloquium — Environmentalism and the Law
The first of the Center's gatherings to lead the national conversation on the environment — placing ecological degradation, host communities and legal accountability at the centre of Nigerian legal discourse.
- 04
Climate Justice
Climate & environmentThe Fourth National Colloquium — Climate Justice in Nigeria
Building on the third, this colloquium pressed the climate question further: who bears the cost of a changing climate, and how the law can reach the communities who carry its heaviest burdens first.
- 05
Institutional Reform
The Fifth National Colloquium — Institutions and Reform
A closing examination of the institutions themselves — how courts, agencies and public bodies can be reformed so that justice is delivered consistently, and not by circumstance.
The next colloquium is in planning. If you would like to take part — as a speaker, partner or participant — we would like to hear from you.