Refworld Case Law Collection Survey
Nigeria
- Country Information 3,286
- Legal Information 298
- Policy Documents 9
- Reference Documents 47
- 28 Too Many 1
- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights 3
- Amnesty International 170
- Article 19 13
- Asylum Aid 34
- Australia: Federal Court 2
- Australia: Federal Magistrates Court 3
- Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal 30
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- Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD) 3
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 1
- Canada: Federal Court 18
- Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 1,519
- Child Soldiers International 3
- Committee to Protect Journalists 92
- Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2
- Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 17
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI) 2
- Czech Republic: Supreme Administrative Court 1
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- Denmark: Danish Immigration Service 5
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- Human Rights Watch 101
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- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 4
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- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 12
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- International Federation for Human Rights 17
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- International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 1
- International Trade Union Confederation 9
- Ireland: High Court 41
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 46
- Ireland: Supreme Court 15
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- Italy: Courts of First Instance 2
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- Jamestown Foundation 39
- Landinfo - Country of Origin Information Centre 4
- Malta: Civil Court, First Hall (Constitutional Jurisdiction) (Qorti Civili, Prim' Awla (Gurisdizzjoni Kostituzzjonali)) 1
- Minorities at Risk Project 8
- Minority Rights Group International 18
- National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities 24
- National Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies 1
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- Nigeria: High Court of Justice of Borno State 1
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- Open Society Foundations (OSF) 4
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- UN Commission on Human Rights 8
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
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- UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 5
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- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 9
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- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 142
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- WRITENET 2
- Annual Reports 308
- Case Law 235
- Chronologies of Events 4
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- Maps 93
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- National Decrees, Circulars, Regulation, Policy Documents 3
- National Legislation 21
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- Query Responses 1,563
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- Regional Reports 26
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- Speeches/Statements 12
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- Statistics 1
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- Abduction 139
- Abuse of psychiatry 2
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- Access to water 7
- Acts of persecution 1
- Administrative courts 1
- Africans 3
- Agents of persecution 1
- Ahmadis 16
- Airports 10
- Alawi 2
- Albanians 6
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 13
- Anglican 17
- Animist 5
- Anti-terrorism law 18
- Apartheid 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 24
- Arabs 2
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 116
- Armed attacks on camps 15
- Armed forces / Military 166
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- Arrival 2
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- Asylum policy 8
- Asylum-migration nexus 6
- Asylum-seekers 67
- Baha'i 3
- Bail 2
- Baptist 20
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- Berber 1
- Border conflict 56
- Border controls 3
- Border crossers 33
- Buddhist 14
- Burden of proof 3
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 8
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- Capacity building of state institutions 1
- Catholic 23
- Ceasefire 89
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
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- Child labour 28
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- Children's rights 105
- Children-at-risk 115
- Christian 195
- Citizenship / Nationality law 6
- Civil and political rights 11
- Civil war 34
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- Combatants / Former combatants 6
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 166
- Complementary forms of protection 12
- Conflict prevention 6
- Conflict resolution 22
- Conflict situation 56
- Constitutional law 3
- Contemporary forms of slavery 6
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 5
- 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 89
- Country of origin information (COI) 41
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- Credibility assessment 33
- Crimean Tatars 4
- Crimes against humanity 21
- Crimes against peace 1
- Criminal justice 89
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 3
- Death in custody 7
- Death penalty 134
- Decision on admissibility 1
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- Denial of nationality 1
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- Deportation / Forcible return 91
- Derivative status 3
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- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 87
- Domestic violence 35
- Drug trafficking 19
- Druze 4
- EU Qualification Directive 5
- Economic, social and cultural rights 19
- Effective protection 11
- Effective remedy 30
- Election law 3
- Elections 239
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- Entry / Exit 3
- Episcopalian 2
- Equality before the law 4
- Eritreans 1
- Ethiopians 4
- Evangelical 19
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 23
- Exceptional leave to remain (ELR) 1
- Exclusion clauses 4
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
- Exiles 3
- Expedited procedures 2
- Expulsion 8
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- Extrajudicial executions 115
- Extreme poverty 12
- False documents 10
- Falun Gong 3
- Family law 1
- Family reunification 6
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 77
- Filipinos 2
- Flight by land, air or sea 6
- Forced labour 36
- Forced marriage 45
- Forced relocation 5
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
- Foreign occupation 11
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 112
- Freedom of assembly and association 158
- Freedom of conscience 5
- Freedom of expression 324
- Freedom of information 152
- Freedom of movement 50
- Freedom of religion 134
- Freedom of speech 101
- Fresh / New claim 8
- Fulani 19
- Gang related violence 10
- Gender discrimination 44
- Gender mainstreaming 6
- Gender-based persecution 24
- Generalized violence 10
- Genocide 4
- Germans 1
- Good governance 61
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
- Grounds for persecution 3
- Group / Prima facie determination 1
- HIV and AIDS 30
- Han 2
- Harmful traditional practices 40
- Hijacking 3
- Hindu 14
- Honour killings 15
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 59
- Human Rights Council 8
- Human rights activists 58
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 142
- Human rights courts 1
- Human rights law 4
- Human rights monitors 7
- Humanitarian assistance 102
- IDP camps 16
- Ibo 22
- Ijaw 26
- Iko 1
- Illegal entry 4
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 6
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 12
- Immigration Detention 13
- Immigration law 6
- Immunity 2
- Impunity 56
- Independence of judiciary 17
- Indigenous persons 5
- Integration 5
- Internal armed conflict 150
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 43
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 227
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 4
- International armed conflict 6
- International courts and tribunals 14
- International criminal law 6
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 17
- International protection 11
- Japanese 1
- Jehovah's Witness 6
- Jew 4
- Jurisdiction 5
- Kachin 4
- Kurd 75
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 9
- Legal representation / Legal aid 10
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 152
- Livelihoods 17
- Location of camps 22
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 10
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 2
- Maternal and child health care 8
- Mental health 12
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 3
- Methodist 16
- Migrant rights 4
- Migrants 48
- Military courts 22
- Military law 2
- Military operations 108
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 27
- Minorities 44
- Minority rights 10
- Mormon 16
- Multiple nationality 1
- Muslim 224
- National security / Public order 7
- Naturalization 1
- Nepalis 1
- Non-refoulement 7
- Non-state agents of persecution 46
- Nuer 2
- Older persons 1
- One-child policy / Family planning 4
- Opposition 94
- Orderly return 1
- Oromo 1
- Orthodox Christian 1
- Palestinian 49
- Passports 14
- Pastoralists 2
- Peace agreements 72
- Peace process 26
- Peacekeeping 43
- Pentecostal 15
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 6
- Persecution based on nationality 1
- Persecution based on political opinion 115
- Persecution of family members 8
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 89
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
- Persons with disabilities 19
- Piracy 12
- Police 136
- Political groups 33
- Political parties 107
- Political situation 285
- Polygamy 3
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
- Pre-trial detention 12
- Presbyterian 16
- Prison or detention conditions 62
- Proof of nationality 3
- Property restitution 2
- Prosecution vs persecution 2
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 28
- Protection of camps 2
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 71
- Protestant 3
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 126
- Public health 45
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 41
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
- Ratification 1
- Reception 1
- Reconciliation 5
- Referendum 26
- Refoulement 4
- Refugee / Asylum law 8
- Refugee camps 55
- Refugee identity documents 2
- Refugee seamen 8
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 8
- Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
- Refugees 283
- Refugees sur place 2
- Regional instruments 13
- Registration 4
- Reintegration 4
- Rejected asylum-seekers 26
- Rejection at border 1
- Religious discrimination 79
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 122
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 5
- Resettlement 5
- Residence permits / Residency 19
- Return conditions 9
- Returnees 36
- Right to a nationality 12
- Right to education 36
- Right to employment 12
- Right to family life 41
- Right to food 9
- Right to health 19
- Right to justice 11
- Right to leave 3
- Right to liberty and security 1
- Right to life 6
- Right to registration at birth 6
- Right to return 3
- Right to seek asylum 3
- Right to self-determination 10
- Rights of non-citizens 6
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 12
- Roma 6
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 77
- SGBV 111
- Safe country of origin 14
- Safe third country 3
- Salafi 23
- Sale of children 1
- Sanctions 9
- Secondary movement 2
- Security forces 166
- Security situation 492
- Serb 1
- Serious non-political crime 5
- Seventh Day Adventist 1
- Sexual and reproductive rights 6
- Shabak 2
- Sharia law 23
- Shia 69
- Sindhis 1
- Single heads of household 5
- Small arms 3
- Smuggling of persons 7
- Social group discrimination 26
- Social group persecution 40
- Somalis 3
- Standard of proof 2
- State of emergency 33
- State protection 56
- Statelessness 19
- Sufi 10
- Sunni 51
- Sur place persecution 3
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 21
- Suspensive effect 3
- Tamil 8
- Tatars 4
- Temporary admission 1
- Temporary protection 4
- Terrorism 446
- Threats / Intimidation 11
- Tibetan 13
- Tiv 4
- Torture 34
- Trafficking in persons 122
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 5
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 7
- Travel documents 11
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 20
- Tuareg 8
- Turkmen 4
- UNHCR mandate 1
- Uighur 40
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 16
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
- Unlawful departure 2
- Urban refugees 3
- Visas 23
- Voluntary repatriation 15
- War crimes 42
- Well-founded fear of persecution 11
- Widowed persons 9
- Witchcraft 9
- Witnesses 1
- Women's rights 118
- Women-at-risk 106
- Yazīdī 12
- Yoruba 35
- Zulus 1
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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
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