Nigeria

• Case Law 234
• Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries 14
• Multilateral Treaties/Agreements 14
• National Decrees, Circulars, Regulation, Policy Documents 3
• National Legislation 21
• Regional Legislation 2
• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 6

• Abduction 2
• Access to procedures 6
• Acts of persecution 1
• Administrative courts 1
• Agents of persecution 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 22
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 5
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Asylum policy 3
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 10
• Border crossers 1
• Burden of proof 3
• Catholic 1
• Children's rights 12
• Children-at-risk 4
• Christian 24
• Citizenship / Nationality law 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Complementary forms of protection 12
• Constitutional law 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 3
• Corruption 4
• Country of origin information (COI) 35
• Credibility assessment 33
• Crimes against humanity 2
• Criminal justice 18
• Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
• Death penalty 1
• Decision on admissibility 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Denial of nationality 1
• Denial of refugee status 8
• Deportation / Forcible return 66
• Derivative status 2
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 4
• Domestic violence 7
• Drug trafficking 1
• EU Qualification Directive 4
• Effective protection 9
• Effective remedy 5
• Election law 1
• Elections 1
• Evangelical 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 23
• Exceptional leave to remain (ELR) 1
• Exclusion clauses 2
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
• Expedited procedures 2
• Expulsion 7
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 2
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 2
• Family reunification 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 16
• Forced marriage 9
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 19
• Freedom of expression 4
• Freedom of information 1
• Freedom of movement 9
• Freedom of religion 1
• Freedom of speech 2
• Fresh / New claim 8
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 9
• Generalized violence 1
• Good governance 1
• Grounds for persecution 3
• HIV and AIDS 7
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 8
• Human rights law 1
• Humanitarian assistance 3
• Ibo 4
• Iko 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 5
• Illegitimate children 1
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 8
• Immigration law 5
• Impunity 1
• Indigenous persons 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 34
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 4
• Jurisdiction 5
• Legal representation / Legal aid 4
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 21
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 10
• Mental health 5
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrants 1
• Minorities 1
• Muslim 2
• National security / Public order 3
• Naturalization 1
• Non-refoulement 3
• Non-state agents of persecution 33
• Opposition 2
• Passports 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 23
• Persecution of family members 5
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 12
• Persons with disabilities 1
• Police 2
• Political groups 3
• Political parties 6
• Political situation 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Prosecution vs persecution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 10
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 8
• Ratification 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 3
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
• Refugees 10
• Refugees sur place 2
• Regional instruments 12
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 20
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 30
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Residence permits / Residency 15
• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 1
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to education 3
• Right to family life 37
• Right to health 4
• Right to life 2
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
• SGBV 12
• Safe third country 2
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Sharia law 2
• Single heads of household 4
• Social group discrimination 1
• Social group persecution 35
• Standard of proof 2
• State of emergency 1
• State protection 21
• Statelessness 6
• Sur place persecution 3
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
• Suspensive effect 3
• Temporary admission 1
• Torture 3
• Trafficking in persons 19
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 5
• Travel documents 3
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 16
• Unlawful departure 1
• Visas 4
• Well-founded fear of persecution 11
• Women's rights 5
• Women-at-risk 14
• Yoruba 5

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• Amnesty International - Nigeria
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Nigeria
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Nigeria
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Nigeria
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Nigeria
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Nigeria
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Nigeria
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Nigeria
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Nigeria
• ReliefWeb - Nigeria
• UNHCR - Nigeria
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Nigeria
• United States Department of State - Nigeria
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Nigeria