Nigeria

• Country News 301
• Country Reports 2

• Abduction 72
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Africans 3
• Ahmadis 6
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
• Anti-terrorism law 14
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 69
• Armed attacks on camps 19
• Armed forces / Military 148
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 205
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 2
• Asylum-seekers 3
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 37
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 6
• Buddhist 20
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
• Catholic 2
• Ceasefire 97
• Chechen 13
• Child soldiers 11
• Children's rights 12
• Children-at-risk 27
• Christian 84
• Civil and political rights 3
• Civil war 48
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 48
• Conflict resolution 16
• Conflict situation 20
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Copts 6
• Corruption 36
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 18
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 10
• Criminal justice 2
• Death penalty 90
• Demobilization / Disarmament 6
• Democracy 6
• Deportation / Forcible return 19
• Disappeared persons 13
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 22
• Domestic violence 13
• Drug trafficking 7
• Druze 4
• Election law 2
• Elections 207
• Embargo 2
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Evacuation 5
• Exiles 2
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 32
• Extreme poverty 2
• Falun Gong 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 8
• Forced marriage 11
• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 11
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 134
• Freedom of expression 125
• Freedom of information 91
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 38
• Freedom of speech 38
• Fulani 9
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Generalized violence 2
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 23
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 4
• Hindu 12
• Honour killings 12
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 9
• Human rights activists 69
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 19
• Humanitarian assistance 26
• IDP camps 8
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 7
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 4
• Indigenous persons 2
• Internal armed conflict 151
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 33
• International armed conflict 2
• International courts and tribunals 15
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Jehovah's Witness 4
• Jew 2
• Kachin 4
• Kurd 81
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 7
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 64
• Maronite 2
• Migrant rights 4
• Migrants 35
• Military courts 9
• Military law 2
• Military operations 96
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 9
• Muslim 128
• National security / Public order 4
• Nepalis 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 5
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 92
• Palestinian 51
• Passports 5
• Peace agreements 73
• Peace process 25
• Peacekeeping 57
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 6
• Persecution based on political opinion 104
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 48
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Police 81
• Political groups 3
• Political parties 71
• Political situation 247
• Polygamy 3
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prison or detention conditions 6
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 46
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 145
• Public health 12
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
• Reconciliation 6
• Referendum 29
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 38
• Refugee seamen 2
• Refugees 101
• Religious discrimination 22
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 50
• Returnees 3
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 10
• Right to justice 2
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 20
• Roma 8
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
• Safe country of origin 14
• Salafi 10
• Sanctions 9
• Security forces 114
• Security situation 289
• Serb 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 18
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 3
• Shia 66
• Sindhis 1
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 4
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• State of emergency 32
• State protection 1
• Sufi 2
• Sunni 38
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 8
• Tatars 4
• Terrorism 255
• Tibetan 20
• Tiv 2
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 4
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
• Tuareg 7
• Turkmen 4
• Uighur 42
• Visas 8
• Voluntary repatriation 8
• War crimes 32
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 18
• Women-at-risk 22
• 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