Nigeria

• Annual Reports 316
• Chronologies of Events 4
• Commentaries 2
• Compilations 3
• Concluding Observations 7
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• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 6
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• 1951 Refugee Convention 1
• 1969 OAU Convention 1
• Abduction 151
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to procedures 7
• Access to water 8
• Africans 3
• Ahmadis 17
• Airports 10
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 13
• Anglican 18
• Animist 6
• Anti-terrorism law 18
• Apartheid 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 122
• Armed attacks on camps 22
• Armed forces / Military 193
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 366
• Arrival 4
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 5
• Asylum-seekers 58
• Baha'i 4
• Bail 2
• Baptist 21
• Bedoon 2
• Berber 1
• Border conflict 65
• Border controls 3
• Border crossers 33
• Buddhist 20
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
• Camp management 1
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 25
• Ceasefire 100
• Changes of circumstances in home country 1
• Chechen 14
• Child labour 29
• Child prostitution 19
• Child soldiers 22
• Children's rights 105
• Children-at-risk 130
• Christian 179
• Citizenship / Nationality law 3
• Civil and political rights 13
• Civil war 49
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 5
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 183
• Conflict prevention 7
• Conflict resolution 22
• Conflict situation 70
• Constitutional law 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 6
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 7
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3
• Copts 4
• Corruption 93
• Country of origin information (COI) 5
• Coup d'état 70
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 21
• Criminal justice 73
• Customary law 3
• Death in custody 7
• Death penalty 142
• Demobilization / Disarmament 13
• Democracy 15
• Denial of refugee status 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 27
• Derivative status 1
• Disappeared persons 49
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 85
• Domestic violence 42
• Drug trafficking 19
• Druze 4
• EU Qualification Directive 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 19
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 25
• Election law 2
• Elections 269
• Embargo 2
• Entry / Exit 3
• Episcopalian 2
• Equality before the law 4
• Eritreans 1
• Ethiopians 4
• Evacuation 1
• Evangelical 19
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exiles 3
• Extradition 7
• Extrajudicial executions 115
• Extreme poverty 14
• False documents 13
• Falun Gong 3
• Family law 1
• Family reunification 5
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 69
• Filipinos 2
• Flight by land, air or sea 7
• Forced labour 36
• Forced marriage 37
• Forced relocation 5
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Foreign occupation 11
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 97
• Freedom of assembly and association 194
• Freedom of conscience 5
• Freedom of expression 354
• Freedom of information 176
• Freedom of movement 48
• Freedom of religion 137
• Freedom of speech 102
• Fulani 23
• Gang related violence 9
• Gender discrimination 47
• Gender mainstreaming 6
• Gender-based persecution 16
• Generalized violence 7
• Genocide 4
• Germans 1
• Good governance 62
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• HIV and AIDS 22
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 47
• Hijacking 3
• Hindu 14
• Honour killings 16
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 68
• Human Rights Council 8
• Human rights activists 83
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 132
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 2
• Human rights monitors 6
• Humanitarian assistance 139
• IDP camps 23
• Ibo 18
• Ijaw 26
• Illegal entry 3
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 10
• Immigration Detention 5
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 59
• Independence of judiciary 20
• Indigenous persons 6
• Integration 8
• Internal armed conflict 187
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 8
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 252
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International armed conflict 8
• International courts and tribunals 15
• International criminal law 5
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 16
• International protection 5
• Japanese 1
• Jehovah's Witness 7
• Jew 5
• Kachin 4
• Kurd 77
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 11
• Legal representation / Legal aid 5
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 137
• Livelihoods 20
• Location of camps 25
• Maronite 2
• Mass exodus 2
• Maternal and child health care 12
• Mental health 7
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
• Methodist 17
• Migrant rights 8
• Migrants 59
• Military courts 22
• Military law 2
• Military operations 121
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 28
• Minorities 44
• Minority rights 10
• Mormon 17
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 231
• National security / Public order 6
• Nepalis 1
• Non-refoulement 4
• Non-state agents of persecution 12
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 98
• Orderly return 1
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 1
• Palestinian 52
• Passports 15
• Pastoralists 2
• Peace agreements 77
• Peace process 28
• Peacekeeping 63
• Pentecostal 15
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 5
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 115
• Persecution of family members 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 84
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 17
• Piracy 12
• Police 152
• Political groups 34
• Political parties 114
• Political situation 328
• Polygamy 3
• Pre-trial detention 13
• Presbyterian 17
• Prison or detention conditions 62
• Proof of nationality 3
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 20
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 74
• Protestant 3
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 140
• Public health 47
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 33
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reception 3
• Reconciliation 5
• Referendum 28
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 5
• Refugee camps 57
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee seamen 11
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 295
• Registration 6
• Reintegration 5
• Rejected asylum-seekers 6
• Religious discrimination 83
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 96
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 5
• Resettlement 5
• Residence permits / Residency 4
• Return conditions 10
• Returnees 41
• Right to a nationality 9
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 33
• Right to employment 14
• Right to family life 4
• Right to food 16
• Right to health 16
• Right to justice 12
• Right to leave 3
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to life 5
• Right to registration at birth 6
• Right to return 3
• Right to seek asylum 2
• Right to self-determination 12
• Rights of non-citizens 5
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 20
• Roma 8
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 63
• SGBV 102
• Safe country of origin 14
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 19
• Sale of children 1
• Sanctions 9
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 182
• Security situation 519
• Serb 1
• Serious non-political crime 3
• Seventh Day Adventist 1
• Sexual and reproductive rights 7
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 23
• Shia 78
• Sindhis 1
• Single heads of household 1
• Small arms 3
• Smuggling of persons 9
• Social group discrimination 25
• Social group persecution 5
• Somalis 3
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 36
• State protection 47
• Statelessness 11
• Sufi 10
• Sunni 51
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 18
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 8
• Tatars 4
• Temporary protection 4
• Terrorism 510
• Threats / Intimidation 13
• Tibetan 13
• Tiv 4
• Torture 34
• Trafficking in persons 101
• Transit 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 7
• Travel documents 9
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
• Tuareg 8
• Turkmen 4
• UNHCR mandate 1
• Uighur 40
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 13
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
• Unlawful departure 1
• Urban refugees 3
• Visas 21
• Voluntary repatriation 18
• War crimes 41
• Widowed persons 9
• Witchcraft 9
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 126
• Women-at-risk 100
• Yazīdī 12
• Yoruba 30
• Zulus 1

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