Nigeria

• Annual Reports 292
• Chronologies of Events 4
• Compilations 2
• Concluding Observations 7
• Conference Reports 2
• Country News 814
• Country Operations Plans 2
• Country Profiles 6
• Country Reports 222
• Country/Situation Specific Position Papers 5
• Fact Finding Reports 10
• Maps 43
• Mission Reports 9
• Policy/Position Papers 1
• Presidential Statements 2
• Query Responses 1,545
• Regional Reports 20
• Research, Background and Discussion Papers 1
• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 2
• Sessional Reports 2
• Speeches/Statements 11
• States Parties Reports 15
• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 5
• UNHCR Country Updates 14

• 1951 Refugee Convention 3
• 1969 OAU Convention 3
• Abduction 98
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to procedures 7
• Access to water 6
• Ahmadis 15
• Airports 10
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 12
• Anglican 11
• Animist 4
• Anti-terrorism law 15
• Apartheid 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 92
• Armed attacks on camps 8
• Armed forces / Military 109
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 259
• Arrival 1
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-migration nexus 2
• Asylum-seekers 55
• Baha'i 2
• Bail 2
• Baptist 14
• Bedoon 2
• Berber 1
• Border conflict 35
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 16
• Buddhist 12
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 4
• Camp management 1
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 16
• Ceasefire 69
• Changes of circumstances in home country 1
• Chechen 14
• Child labour 26
• Child prostitution 17
• Child soldiers 13
• Children's rights 74
• Children-at-risk 78
• Christian 147
• Citizenship / Nationality law 3
• Civil and political rights 10
• Civil war 21
• Civilian character of asylum 2
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 156
• Conflict prevention 4
• Conflict resolution 16
• Conflict situation 48
• Constitutional law 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 5
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 5
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3
• Copts 2
• Corruption 72
• Country of origin information (COI) 5
• Coup d'état 62
• Crimean Tatars 2
• Crimes against humanity 15
• Criminal justice 71
• Customary law 3
• Death in custody 5
• Death penalty 106
• Demobilization / Disarmament 6
• Democracy 9
• Denial of refugee status 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 21
• Derivative status 1
• Disappeared persons 36
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 80
• Domestic violence 27
• Drug trafficking 14
• Druze 4
• EU Qualification Directive 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 19
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 17
• Election law 1
• Elections 191
• Embargo 2
• Entry / Exit 3
• Episcopalian 2
• Equality before the law 4
• Eritreans 1
• Ethiopians 4
• Evangelical 12
• Exclusion clauses 2
• Exiles 2
• Extradition 7
• Extrajudicial executions 98
• Extreme poverty 9
• False documents 6
• Falun Gong 3
• Family law 1
• Family reunification 3
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 51
• Filipinos 2
• Flight by land, air or sea 4
• Forced labour 34
• Forced marriage 26
• Forced relocation 5
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Foreign occupation 9
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 83
• Freedom of assembly and association 126
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 281
• Freedom of information 126
• Freedom of movement 36
• Freedom of religion 110
• Freedom of speech 89
• Fulani 17
• Gang related violence 7
• Gender discrimination 42
• Gender mainstreaming 5
• Gender-based persecution 15
• Generalized violence 9
• Genocide 2
• Germans 1
• Good governance 55
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• HIV and AIDS 20
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 35
• Hijacking 3
• Hindu 12
• Honour killings 10
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 54
• Human Rights Council 7
• Human rights activists 38
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 127
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 2
• Human rights monitors 5
• Humanitarian assistance 68
• IDP camps 5
• Ibo 18
• Ijaw 26
• Illegal entry 3
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 10
• Immigration Detention 5
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 50
• Independence of judiciary 14
• Indigenous persons 1
• Integration 4
• Internal armed conflict 111
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 163
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International armed conflict 2
• International courts and tribunals 8
• International criminal law 5
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 10
• International protection 5
• Japanese 1
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Jew 1
• Kachin 4
• Kurd 36
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 5
• Legal representation / Legal aid 5
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 111
• Livelihoods 10
• Location of camps 14
• Maronite 2
• Mass exodus 2
• Maternal and child health care 7
• Mental health 5
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
• Methodist 10
• Migrant rights 4
• Migrants 29
• Military courts 20
• Military law 2
• Military operations 61
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 19
• Minorities 43
• Minority rights 10
• Mormon 10
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 197
• National security / Public order 2
• Nepalis 1
• Non-refoulement 4
• Non-state agents of persecution 12
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 71
• Orderly return 1
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 1
• Palestinian 34
• Passports 7
• Pastoralists 2
• Peace agreements 49
• Peace process 20
• Peacekeeping 30
• Pentecostal 10
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 58
• Persecution of family members 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 64
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 16
• Piracy 9
• Police 110
• Political groups 30
• Political parties 85
• Political situation 237
• Polygamy 3
• Pre-trial detention 10
• Presbyterian 10
• Prison or detention conditions 51
• Proof of nationality 1
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 15
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 41
• Protestant 2
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 107
• Public health 38
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 33
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reconciliation 2
• Referendum 20
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 5
• Refugee camps 31
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee seamen 6
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 211
• Registration 3
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 6
• Religious discrimination 69
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 68
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
• Resettlement 2
• Residence permits / Residency 4
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 24
• Right to a nationality 9
• Right to education 30
• Right to employment 11
• Right to family life 4
• Right to food 5
• Right to health 14
• Right to justice 5
• Right to leave 3
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 3
• Right to registration at birth 5
• Right to return 3
• Right to seek asylum 2
• Right to self-determination 8
• Rights of non-citizens 5
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 10
• Roma 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 55
• SGBV 86
• Safe country of origin 8
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 17
• Sanctions 4
• Security forces 131
• Security situation 405
• Serb 1
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Seventh Day Adventist 1
• Sexual and reproductive rights 5
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 21
• Shia 57
• Sindhis 1
• Single heads of household 1
• Small arms 3
• Smuggling of persons 5
• Social group discrimination 24
• Social group persecution 5
• Somalis 3
• State of emergency 21
• State protection 26
• Statelessness 8
• Sufi 6
• Sunni 45
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 10
• Tamil 6
• Tatars 2
• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 321
• Threats / Intimidation 7
• Tibetan 11
• Tiv 4
• Torture 26
• Trafficking in persons 93
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 7
• Travel documents 5
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
• Tuareg 6
• Turkmen 4
• UNHCR mandate 1
• Uighur 38
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 8
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
• Unlawful departure 1
• Urban refugees 3
• Visas 17
• Voluntary repatriation 8
• War crimes 31
• Widowed persons 9
• Witchcraft 8
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 103
• Women-at-risk 69
• Yazīdī 12
• Yoruba 30
• Zulus 1

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