Nigeria

Country Information 269

1969 OAU Convention 1
Abduction 10
Access to procedures 1
Access to water 1
Ahmadis 1
Airports 1
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 2
Anti-terrorism law 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 15
Armed attacks on camps 1
Armed forces / Military 10
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 13
Asylum-migration nexus 2
Asylum-seekers 11
Border conflict 6
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 11
Children-at-risk 14
Christian 9
Civil and political rights 2
Civil war 3
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Combatants / Former combatants 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 15
Conflict prevention 2
Conflict situation 8
Constitutional law 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 2
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
Corruption 14
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 5
Customary law 1
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 13
Demobilization / Disarmament 1
Democracy 1
Deportation / Forcible return 4
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 8
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
Domestic violence 6
Drug trafficking 2
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 2
Effective remedy 9
Elections 17
Entry / Exit 1
Equality before the law 1
Eritreans 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Extrajudicial executions 23
Extreme poverty 3
False documents 3
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 13
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 1
Forced marriage 4
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
Freedom of assembly and association 11
Freedom of expression 14
Freedom of information 3
Freedom of movement 9
Freedom of religion 6
Freedom of speech 2
Fulani 2
Gang related violence 2
Gender discrimination 10
Gender mainstreaming 3
Gender-based persecution 7
Genocide 1
Good governance 9
HIV and AIDS 6
Harmful traditional practices 6
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 8
Human Rights Council 5
Human rights activists 7
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 30
Human rights courts 1
Humanitarian assistance 2
IDP camps 2
Ibo 2
Ijaw 2
Illegal entry 1
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 1
Impunity 13
Independence of judiciary 5
Indigenous persons 1
Internal armed conflict 9
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 3
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 22
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
International armed conflict 3
International courts and tribunals 1
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 5
International protection 1
Jehovah's Witness 1
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 3
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 11
Location of camps 1
Mass exodus 2
Maternal and child health care 1
Mental health 2
Migrant rights 1
Migrants 2
Military courts 1
Military operations 4
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
Minorities 4
Minority rights 1
Muslim 14
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 5
Opposition 2
Orthodox Christian 1
Palestinian 1
Passports 2
Peace agreements 5
Peace process 1
Peacekeeping 4
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on political opinion 2
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 2
Police 17
Political groups 4
Political parties 11
Political situation 29
Polygamy 1
Pre-trial detention 3
Prison or detention conditions 16
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 5
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
Protestant 1
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
Public health 6
Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
Referendum 2
Refoulement 2
Refugee / Asylum law 4
Refugee camps 2
Refugees 18
Rejected asylum-seekers 3
Religious discrimination 1
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 5
Return conditions 1
Returnees 4
Right to a nationality 1
Right to education 3
Right to employment 1
Right to family life 1
Right to food 1
Right to health 1
Right to justice 3
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 2
Right to seek asylum 1
Right to self-determination 2
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
SGBV 19
Security forces 19
Security situation 40
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and reproductive rights 2
Sharia law 7
Small arms 1
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 3
Social group persecution 1
Somalis 1
State protection 6
Statelessness 2
Sufi 1
Sunni 1
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 8
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 28
Threats / Intimidation 1
Tiv 1
Torture 6
Trafficking in persons 19
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
Travel documents 1
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
UNHCR mandate 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 7
Voluntary repatriation 2
War crimes 1
Witchcraft 4
Witnesses 1
Women's rights 20
Women-at-risk 21
Yoruba 1

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Newspaper Reporters Released Conditionally after Two Days 10 April 2013 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country Reports
Nigeria: No justice for the dead 5 February 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Curbing Violence in Nigeria (I): The Jos Crisis 17 December 2012 \| Publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG) \| Document type: Country Reports
Nigeria: Trapped in the cycle of violence 1 November 2012 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Spiraling Violence: Boko Haram Attacks and Security Force Abuses in Nigeria 11 October 2012 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Nigeria: Current Issues and U.S. Policy 18 July 2012 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Nigeria: Forced Eviction of Abonnema Wharf Waterfront: "Pack and Go!" 9 July 2012 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report Universal Periodic Review: Switzerland April 2012 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Addendum : Follow-up to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur visits to China, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, Georgia, Greece, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Moldova, Spain, Sri Lanka, Togo, Uruguay and Uzbekistan 1 March 2012 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Nigeria: Elections and Issues for Congress 19 January 2012 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports

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