Nigeria

• Annual Reports 344
• Chronologies of Events 4
• Commentaries 4
• Compilations 3
• Concluding Observations 7
• Conference Reports 2
• Country News 1,216
• Country Operations Plans 2
• Country Profiles 11
• Country Reports 278
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• Maps 108
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• Policy/Position Papers 1
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• Query Responses 1,617
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• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 3
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• Speeches/Statements 13
• States Parties Reports 16
• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 10
• UNHCR Country Updates 33

• 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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