Nigeria

1951 Refugee Convention 1
1969 OAU Convention 1
Abduction 168
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to procedures 8
Access to water 13
Africans 3
Ahmadis 17
Airports 10
Alawi 2
Albanians 6
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 13
Anglican 18
Animist 7
Anti-terrorism law 18
Apartheid 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 2
Arabs 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 138
Armed attacks on camps 26
Armed forces / Military 213
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 414
Arrival 4
Assyrians 2
Asylum policy 3
Asylum-migration nexus 8
Asylum-seekers 63
Baha'i 4
Bail 4
Baptist 21
Bedoon 2
Berber 1
Border conflict 65
Border controls 3
Border crossers 34
Buddhist 20
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
Camp management 1
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Catholic 25
Ceasefire 102
Changes of circumstances in home country 1
Chechen 14
Child labour 33
Child prostitution 20
Child soldiers 27
Children's rights 123
Children-at-risk 154
Christian 187
Citizenship / Nationality law 6
Civil and political rights 14
Civil war 53
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 4
Combatants / Former combatants 5
Communal conflict / Social conflict 192
Conflict prevention 9
Conflict resolution 23
Conflict situation 71
Constitutional law 2
Contemporary forms of slavery 7
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) 4
Copts 8
Corruption 103
Country of origin information (COI) 5
Coup d'état 72
Crimean Tatars 4
Crimes against humanity 21
Criminal justice 78
Customary law 3
Death in custody 8
Death penalty 148
Demobilization / Disarmament 16
Democracy 15
Denial of refugee status 2
Deportation / Forcible return 34
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 51
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 88
Domestic violence 43
Drug trafficking 19
Druze 4
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 19
Effective protection 3
Effective remedy 30
Election law 3
Elections 293
Embargo 2
Entry / Exit 3
Episcopalian 2
Equality before the law 4
Eritreans 1
Ethiopians 4
Evacuation 6
Evangelical 19
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exiles 4
Extradition 7
Extrajudicial executions 136
Extreme poverty 14
False documents 13
Falun Gong 3
Family law 1
Family reunification 8
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 77
Filipinos 2
Flight by land, air or sea 9
Forced labour 39
Forced marriage 41
Forced relocation 7
Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
Foreign occupation 11
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 99
Freedom of assembly and association 211
Freedom of conscience 5
Freedom of expression 392
Freedom of information 197
Freedom of movement 50
Freedom of religion 148
Freedom of speech 110
Fulani 28
Gang related violence 10
Gender discrimination 52
Gender mainstreaming 6
Gender-based persecution 19
Generalized violence 12
Genocide 4
Germans 1
Good governance 68
Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
Group / Prima facie determination 1
HIV and AIDS 25
Han 2
Harmful traditional practices 51
Hijacking 3
Hindu 14
Honour killings 16
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 75
Human Rights Council 9
Human rights activists 94
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 140
Human rights courts 1
Human rights law 2
Human rights monitors 8
Humanitarian assistance 167
IDP camps 25
Ibo 18
Ijaw 26
Illegal entry 3
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
Immigrants 10
Immigration Detention 6
Immigration law 1
Immunity 2
Impunity 65
Independence of judiciary 24
Indigenous persons 9
Integration 8
Internal armed conflict 210
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 8
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 289
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
International armed conflict 9
International courts and tribunals 17
International criminal law 7
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 17
International protection 5
Involuntary repatriation 2
Japanese 1
Jehovah's Witness 10
Jew 6
Juvenile justice system 1
Kachin 4
Kurd 88
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 11
Legal representation / Legal aid 5
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 146
Livelihoods 22
Location of camps 25
Maronite 2
Mass exodus 2
Maternal and child health care 15
Mental harm 1
Mental health 9
Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
Methodist 17
Migrant rights 9
Migrants 71
Military courts 27
Military law 2
Military operations 129
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 29
Minorities 47
Minority rights 10
Mormon 17
Multiple nationality 1
Muslim 241
National security / Public order 13
Nepalis 1
Non-refoulement 4
Non-state agents of persecution 27
Nuer 2
One-child policy / Family planning 4
Opposition 105
Orderly return 1
Oromo 1
Orthodox Christian 1
Palestinian 52
Passports 19
Pastoralists 3
Peace agreements 79
Peace process 32
Peacekeeping 72
Pentecostal 15
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 9
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 124
Persecution of family members 3
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 93
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Persons with disabilities 19
Piracy 13
Police 169
Political groups 37
Political parties 124
Political situation 352
Polygamy 4
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
Pre-trial detention 16
Presbyterian 17
Prison or detention conditions 65
Proof of nationality 3
Property restitution 2
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 21
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 78
Protestant 3
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 155
Public health 52
Racial / Ethnic persecution 33
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
Reception 4
Reconciliation 8
Referendum 36
Refoulement 4
Refugee / Asylum law 5
Refugee camps 63
Refugee identity documents 6
Refugee seamen 12
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
Refugees 328
Registration 8
Reintegration 6
Rejected asylum-seekers 6
Religious discrimination 93
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 100
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 7
Resettlement 5
Residence permits / Residency 4
Return conditions 15
Returnees 50
Right to a nationality 9
Right to development 1
Right to education 38
Right to employment 14
Right to family life 4
Right to food 16
Right to health 27
Right to justice 23
Right to leave 3
Right to liberty and security 2
Right to life 5
Right to registration at birth 7
Right to return 3
Right to seek asylum 2
Right to self-determination 19
Rights of non-citizens 5
Rohingya (Arakanese) 20
Roma 8
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 68
Safe country of origin 14
Safe third country 1
Salafi 19
Sale of children 1
Sanctions 9
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 201
Security situation 543
Serb 1
Serious non-political crime 3
Seventh Day Adventist 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 107
Sexual and reproductive rights 10
Shabak 2
Sharia law 23
Shia 81
Sindhis 1
Single heads of household 1
Small arms 3
Smuggling of persons 13
Social group discrimination 26
Social group persecution 5
Somalis 3
Spontaneous return 1
State of emergency 40
State protection 50
Statelessness 14
Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
Sufi 10
Sunni 55
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 22
Tajik 2
Tamil 8
Tatars 4
Temporary protection 5
Terrorism 571
Threats / Intimidation 14
Tibetan 20
Tiv 4
Torture 36
Trafficking in persons 109
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 42
Unaccompanied / Separated children 14
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
Unlawful departure 1
Urban refugees 3
Visas 23
Voluntary repatriation 19
War crimes 41
Widowed persons 9
Witchcraft 10
Witnesses 2
Women's rights 140
Women-at-risk 109
Yazīdī 12
Yoruba 30
Zulus 1

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