Nigeria

• Abduction 67
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to water 4
• Ahmadis 6
• Airports 1
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
• Anti-terrorism law 12
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 51
• Armed attacks on camps 7
• Armed forces / Military 98
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 142
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 34
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 33
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 13
• Buddhist 12
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
• Camp management 1
• Catholic 1
• Ceasefire 69
• Chechen 13
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 18
• Children-at-risk 40
• Christian 92
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civil war 20
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 98
• Conflict prevention 1
• Conflict resolution 15
• Conflict situation 35
• Constitutional law 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 4
• Copts 1
• Corruption 34
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 9
• Crimean Tatars 2
• Crimes against humanity 14
• Criminal justice 7
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 78
• Demobilization / Disarmament 4
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 10
• Disappeared persons 13
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 28
• Domestic violence 8
• Drug trafficking 4
• Druze 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 9
• Election law 1
• Elections 155
• Embargo 2
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Exiles 2
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 37
• Extreme poverty 2
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
• Flight by land, air or sea 2
• Forced marriage 7
• Forced relocation 2
• Foreign occupation 9
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 24
• Freedom of assembly and association 73
• Freedom of expression 148
• Freedom of information 86
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 29
• Freedom of speech 59
• Fulani 8
• Gender discrimination 10
• Gender-based persecution 6
• Generalized violence 3
• Genocide 1
• Germans 1
• Good governance 34
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 6
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 4
• Hindu 10
• Honour killings 8
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 22
• Human rights activists 24
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 32
• Human rights law 2
• Humanitarian assistance 42
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 8
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 20
• Integration 1
• Internal armed conflict 100
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 89
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 7
• International criminal law 5
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Kachin 4
• Kurd 36
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 69
• Livelihoods 7
• Maronite 2
• Maternal and child health care 3
• Mental health 1
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 21
• Military courts 2
• Military law 2
• Military operations 56
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 5
• Minority rights 1
• Muslim 134
• National security / Public order 2
• Nepalis 1
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 61
• Palestinian 34
• Peace agreements 46
• Peace process 19
• Peacekeeping 22
• Persecution based on political opinion 44
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 47
• Persons with disabilities 4
• Piracy 7
• Police 60
• Political groups 7
• Political parties 43
• Political situation 186
• Polygamy 3
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Property restitution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 35
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 105
• Public health 16
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reconciliation 2
• Referendum 19
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 16
• Refugee seamen 5
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 139
• Registration 1
• Reintegration 1
• Religious discrimination 14
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 37
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 1
• Returnees 12
• Right to education 17
• Right to employment 3
• Right to family life 3
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 10
• Right to justice 2
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 10
• Roma 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 15
• SGBV 24
• Safe country of origin 8
• Salafi 12
• Sanctions 4
• Security forces 88
• Security situation 353
• Serb 1
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 5
• Shia 47
• Sindhis 1
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 5
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• State of emergency 19
• State protection 1
• Statelessness 3
• Sunni 30
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Tamil 6
• Tatars 2
• Terrorism 256
• Threats / Intimidation 4
• Tibetan 11
• Tiv 2
• Torture 4
• Trafficking in persons 21
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Tuareg 6
• Turkmen 4
• Uighur 38
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Visas 2
• Voluntary repatriation 3
• War crimes 30
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 51
• Women-at-risk 30
• 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