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Benin

August 27, 2019

Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors

Many survivors of sex and labor trafficking struggle with unaddressed health challenges, poverty, and abhorrent conditions upon their return to Nigeria.

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  • Women's Rights
    A woman from Cameroon sits with her baby in a private shelter in Lagos, Nigeria.

    August 27, 2019

    News Release
    Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors
  • Children's Rights
    “Evelina,” 17, with her 3-year-old daughter “Hope,” in Migori county, western Kenya. Evelina is in Form 2, the second year of lower secondary school.

    June 14, 2018

    Report
    Leave No Girl Behind in Africa
    Author image

    Elin Martínez

    Senior Researcher, Children's Rights Division
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    Martinez_Elin

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    Agnes Odhiambo

    Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division
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    AgnesOdhiambo

  • Children's Rights
    Students enrolled in the final year of lower secondary school in the classroom in a village in Kolda region, southern Senegal. Adolescent mothers and married girls study in this school.

    June 14, 2018

    News Release
    Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School

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  • June 14, 2018 Report

    Leave No Girl Behind in Africa

    Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers

    “Evelina,” 17, with her 3-year-old daughter “Hope,” in Migori county, western Kenya. Evelina is in Form 2, the second year of lower secondary school.
  • December 5, 2017 Report

    Flawed Justice

    Accountability for ISIS Crimes in Iraq

    An ISIS suspect held for questioning by Iraqi forces near Mosul.
  • December 1, 2003 Report

    Policy Paralysis

    A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa

  • April 1, 2003 Report

    Borderline Slavery

    Child Trafficking In Togo

News

  • August 27, 2019 News Release

    Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors

    End Detention in Shelters, Provide More Support

    A woman from Cameroon sits with her baby in a private shelter in Lagos, Nigeria.
  • June 14, 2018 News Release

    Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School

    African Governments Should Ensure Right to Education

    Students enrolled in the final year of lower secondary school in the classroom in a village in Kolda region, southern Senegal. Adolescent mothers and married girls study in this school.
  • October 30, 2017 Letter

    Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Benin

    79th pre-sessional working group

  • March 10, 2016 Statement

    UN Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights

    Statement delivered under Item 2

  • August 13, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Europe’s Refugee Crisis – Has UK Forgotten the Past?

    migrants uk
  • May 21, 2015 News Release

    EU: Don’t Endanger Lives at Sea or Deny Protection

    Anti-smuggling Operation Bound by Human Rights Law

  • July 30, 2009 Statement

    African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC

  • December 9, 2008 Letter

    European Union: Urgently Deploy a "Bridging" Force to North Kivu in the eastern DRC

    Letter to European Union member states

  • March 11, 2008 Letter

    Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism

  • July 2, 2003 Statement

    President Bush's Trip to Africa

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Jan 22, 2021

Russian dissidents intimidated and detained before pro-Navalny protests; Tibetan monk dies from beating in custody; business as usual with Egypt is a bad idea for EU; crackdown ahead of Vietnam party congress; NYPD faces lawsuit over tactics during George Floyd protests; Eastern Caribbean states called out over anti-LGBT bias; and good news from DR Congo.

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