Nigeria

Country Information 1,216

Abduction 122
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to water 6
Africans 3
Ahmadis 6
Airports 1
Alawi 2
Albanians 6
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
Anti-terrorism law 15
Arabs 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 89
Armed attacks on camps 25
Armed forces / Military 191
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 255
Arrival 1
Assyrians 2
Asylum policy 1
Asylum-migration nexus 4
Asylum-seekers 40
Bail 2
Bedoon 2
Border conflict 53
Border controls 3
Border crossers 18
Buddhist 20
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
Camp management 1
Catholic 3
Ceasefire 102
Chechen 13
Child labour 1
Child soldiers 14
Children's rights 45
Children-at-risk 96
Christian 118
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Civil and political rights 6
Civil war 50
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
Combatants / Former combatants 4
Communal conflict / Social conflict 115
Conflict prevention 7
Conflict resolution 22
Conflict situation 54
Constitutional law 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 5
Copts 7
Corruption 51
Country of origin information (COI) 4
Coup d'état 19
Crimean Tatars 4
Crimes against humanity 19
Criminal justice 8
Death in custody 3
Death penalty 113
Demobilization / Disarmament 11
Democracy 8
Deportation / Forcible return 25
Disappeared persons 18
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 30
Domestic violence 21
Drug trafficking 8
Druze 4
Economic, social and cultural rights 1
Effective remedy 18
Election law 3
Elections 239
Embargo 2
Entry / Exit 2
Ethiopians 4
Evacuation 6
Exiles 2
Extradition 6
Extrajudicial executions 64
Extreme poverty 4
Falun Gong 2
Family reunification 4
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 12
Flight by land, air or sea 4
Forced marriage 17
Forced relocation 4
Foreign occupation 11
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 32
Freedom of assembly and association 143
Freedom of expression 236
Freedom of information 144
Freedom of movement 6
Freedom of religion 49
Freedom of speech 76
Fulani 13
Gang related violence 2
Gender discrimination 12
Gender-based persecution 8
Generalized violence 5
Genocide 3
Germans 1
Good governance 43
Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
HIV and AIDS 6
Han 2
Harmful traditional practices 4
Hindu 12
Honour killings 14
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 35
Human Rights Council 1
Human rights activists 74
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 40
Human rights law 2
Humanitarian assistance 110
IDP camps 16
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
Immigrants 8
Immigration Detention 1
Immigration law 1
Immunity 2
Impunity 27
Independence of judiciary 5
Indigenous persons 4
Integration 3
Internal armed conflict 183
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 149
International armed conflict 4
International courts and tribunals 16
International criminal law 5
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 8
International protection 1
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jehovah's Witness 4
Jew 2
Kachin 4
Kurd 88
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 7
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 83
Livelihoods 18
Maronite 2
Maternal and child health care 8
Mental harm 1
Mental health 3
Migrant rights 7
Migrants 57
Military courts 9
Military law 2
Military operations 121
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 8
Minorities 7
Minority rights 1
Muslim 169
National security / Public order 9
Nepalis 1
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 13
Nuer 2
One-child policy / Family planning 4
Opposition 93
Palestinian 51
Passports 5
Peace agreements 73
Peace process 29
Peacekeeping 61
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 7
Persecution based on political opinion 105
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 56
Persons with disabilities 5
Piracy 9
Police 103
Political groups 8
Political parties 79
Political situation 286
Polygamy 3
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
Pre-trial detention 4
Prison or detention conditions 13
Property restitution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 67
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 148
Public health 26
Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Reception 3
Reconciliation 8
Referendum 33
Refoulement 2
Refugee / Asylum law 1
Refugee camps 41
Refugee seamen 7
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
Refugees 225
Registration 6
Reintegration 5
Religious discrimination 32
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 58
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 5
Resettlement 3
Return conditions 12
Returnees 29
Right to development 1
Right to education 19
Right to employment 3
Right to family life 3
Right to food 15
Right to health 21
Right to justice 16
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 1
Right to seek asylum 1
Right to self-determination 12
Rohingya (Arakanese) 20
Roma 8
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 20
Safe country of origin 14
Salafi 12
Sanctions 9
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 145
Security situation 459
Serb 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 35
Sexual and reproductive rights 2
Shabak 2
Sharia law 5
Shia 68
Sindhis 1
Small arms 1
Smuggling of persons 9
Social group discrimination 6
Social group persecution 3
Somalis 2
Spontaneous return 1
State of emergency 37
State protection 3
Statelessness 4
Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
Sufi 2
Sunni 38
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
Tajik 2
Tamil 8
Tatars 4
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 453
Threats / Intimidation 6
Tibetan 20
Tiv 2
Torture 6
Trafficking in persons 23
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
Tuareg 8
Turkmen 4
Uighur 42
Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
Visas 8
Voluntary repatriation 12
War crimes 40
Witchcraft 2
Women's rights 63
Women-at-risk 48
Yazīdī 12

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Campaign Update, October 2020 - December 2020 11 January 2021 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country News
Zamfara: Nigeria's wild northwest 13 September 2018 \| Publisher: IRIN \| Document type: Country News
Secretary-General repeats call for support to Lake Chad countries after latest Boko Haram attack 21 August 2018 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Nigerian journalist held over leak of police chief's report 17 August 2018 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Nigeria: Meet "Baba IDP": the local hero making sure Boko Haram victims get healthcare 7 August 2018 \| Publisher: IRIN \| Document type: Country News
Girls groomed for suicide missions fight back against the extremists of Lake Chad 6 July 2018 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Nigeria: Rising toll of middle-belt violence 28 June 2018 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
A minute of silence for victims of Nigeria's epidemic of violence 28 May 2018 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
Nigeria: 'Largest-ever' outbreak of Lassa fever contained but monitoring still needed, says UN health agency 11 May 2018 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Nigeria Reckless police crackdown against unarmed protestors put lives at risk 17 April 2018 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News

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