Nigeria

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• Committee to Protect Journalists 57
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 280
• Human Rights Watch 46
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 10
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 12
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 2
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• IRIN 161
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• Minority Rights Group International 2
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• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 1
• World Organisation Against Torture 1

• Abduction 108
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to water 6
• Africans 3
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• Anti-terrorism law 15
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 75
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• Arrival 1
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• Asylum-migration nexus 2
• Asylum-seekers 35
• Bedoon 2
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• Buddhist 20
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• Child soldiers 13
• Children's rights 39
• Children-at-risk 83
• Christian 112
• Civil and political rights 5
• Civil war 46
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 4
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 113
• Conflict prevention 5
• Conflict resolution 21
• Conflict situation 54
• Constitutional law 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 4
• Copts 3
• Corruption 47
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 17
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 19
• Criminal justice 7
• Death in custody 3
• Death penalty 110
• Demobilization / Disarmament 9
• Democracy 8
• Deportation / Forcible return 18
• 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 14
• Election law 2
• Elections 222
• Embargo 2
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Evacuation 1
• Exiles 2
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 48
• Extreme poverty 4
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 12
• Flight by land, air or sea 4
• Forced marriage 16
• Forced relocation 2
• Foreign occupation 11
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 31
• Freedom of assembly and association 131
• Freedom of expression 208
• Freedom of information 129
• Freedom of movement 6
• Freedom of religion 44
• Freedom of speech 70
• Fulani 10
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 11
• Gender-based persecution 7
• Generalized violence 3
• Genocide 3
• Germans 1
• Good governance 38
• 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) 31
• Human Rights Council 1
• Human rights activists 66
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 34
• Human rights law 2
• Humanitarian assistance 92
• IDP camps 14
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 8
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 25
• Independence of judiciary 4
• Indigenous persons 3
• Integration 3
• Internal armed conflict 165
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 136
• International armed conflict 4
• International courts and tribunals 14
• International criminal law 5
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
• International protection 1
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 2
• Kachin 4
• Kurd 77
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 7
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 77
• Livelihoods 17
• Maronite 2
• Maternal and child health care 6
• Mental health 2
• Migrant rights 6
• Migrants 48
• Military courts 4
• Military law 2
• Military operations 114
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 8
• Minorities 5
• Minority rights 1
• Muslim 162
• National security / Public order 6
• Nepalis 1
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 86
• Palestinian 51
• Passports 3
• Peace agreements 71
• Peace process 25
• Peacekeeping 53
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 4
• Persecution based on political opinion 97
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 52
• Persons with disabilities 4
• Piracy 8
• Police 93
• Political groups 8
• Political parties 70
• Political situation 266
• Polygamy 3
• Pre-trial detention 2
• Prison or detention conditions 13
• Property restitution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 65
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 134
• Public health 24
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reception 2
• Reconciliation 5
• Referendum 25
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 35
• Refugee seamen 7
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 204
• Registration 4
• Reintegration 4
• Religious discrimination 25
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 56
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Resettlement 3
• Return conditions 8
• Returnees 23
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 17
• Right to employment 3
• Right to family life 3
• Right to food 15
• Right to health 12
• Right to justice 7
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 1
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 5
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 20
• Roma 8
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 18
• SGBV 33
• Safe country of origin 14
• Salafi 12
• Sanctions 9
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 131
• Security situation 442
• Serb 1
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 5
• Shia 65
• Sindhis 1
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 6
• Social group discrimination 5
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 33
• State protection 2
• Statelessness 3
• Sufi 2
• Sunni 34
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 8
• Tatars 4
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 405
• Threats / Intimidation 6
• Tibetan 13
• Tiv 2
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 22
• Transit 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Tuareg 8
• Turkmen 4
• Uighur 40
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
• Visas 6
• Voluntary repatriation 11
• War crimes 40
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 57
• Women-at-risk 45
• Yazīdī 12

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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