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• Extrajudicial executions 101
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• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 102
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• Freedom of speech 91
• Fresh / New claim 8
• Fulani 17
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• Gender mainstreaming 5
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• Human Rights Council 7
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• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 139
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• Humanitarian assistance 71
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• Impunity 51
• Independence of judiciary 14
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• Internal armed conflict 111
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• Legal representation / Legal aid 9
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 136
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• Maronite 2
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• Minorities 44
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• Piracy 9
• Police 112
• Political groups 33
• Political parties 92
• Political situation 239
• Polygamy 3
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• Pre-trial detention 11
• Presbyterian 10
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• Proof of nationality 1
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• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 25
• Protection of camps 2
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• Protestant 2
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• Public health 45
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 41
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
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• Refoulement 4
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• Refugees 228
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• Religious discrimination 72
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 100
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• Returnees 28
• Right to a nationality 11
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• Right to self-determination 8
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• Rohingya (Arakanese) 10
• Roma 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 71
• SGBV 102
• Safe country of origin 8
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• Salafi 22
• Sanctions 4
• Secondary movement 2
• Security forces 134
• Security situation 413
• Serb 1
• Serious non-political crime 4
• Seventh Day Adventist 1
• Sexual and reproductive rights 5
• Shabak 2
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• Shia 58
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• Social group discrimination 25
• Social group persecution 40
• Somalis 3
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• State of emergency 22
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• Sufi 7
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• Sur place persecution 3
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 16
• Suspensive effect 3
• Tamil 6
• Tatars 2
• Temporary admission 1
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• Terrorism 329
• Threats / Intimidation 7
• Tibetan 11
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• Torture 29
• Trafficking in persons 117
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 5
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• Tuareg 6
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• UNHCR mandate 1
• Uighur 38
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 12
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
• Unlawful departure 2
• Urban refugees 3
• Visas 21
• Voluntary repatriation 9
• War crimes 32
• Well-founded fear of persecution 11
• Widowed persons 9
• Witchcraft 8
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 110
• Women-at-risk 84
• 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
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Nigeria