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January 17, 2019 News Release

Nigeria: Heightened Insecurity Threatens Rights

Slow Progress on Justice for Security Force Abuses

Pallbearers carry coffins during the funeral service for people killed during clashes between cattle herders and farmers in Ibrahim Babangida Square in the Benue state capital, Makurdi, January 11, 2018. Violence between the mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen
January 8, 2019 News Release

Nigeria: Military Raids Newspaper, Detains Staff

Free Journalist; Return Confiscated Computers

Nigerian Army officials lay siege at the gate of Daily Trust office in Abuja on January 6, 2019. © Daily Trust
December 12, 2018 News Release

Nigeria: End Impunity For Killings of Shia

Halt Crackdown on Protests

Sanusi Abdulkadir, a leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) leads on November 16, 2016 in Kano the funeral prayers for the some of the victims of clashes that broke out on November 14 between police and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria
November 2, 2018 Dispatches

Trump’s Incendiary Rhetoric Emboldens Nigerian Military

Army Justifies Shooting Protesters by Posting Trump Video

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a "California Sanctuary State Roundtable" at the White House in Washington. U.S., May 16, 2018.
September 17, 2018 News Release

Nigeria: Flawed Trials of Boko Haram Suspects

Ensure Due Process, Victim Participation

Police officers outline handcuffed suspected Boko Haram militants in Maiduguri, northest Nigeria, on July 18, 2018.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Cluster Munition Coalition Statement on Stockpile Destruction to the Convention on Cluster Munitions Eighth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva

Delivered by Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director, Arms Division

August 21, 2018 News Release

Nigeria: Journalists, Activists Detained, Allege Torture

End Harassment, Attacks on Freedom of Expression

Protesters from the Islamic Movement of Nigeria
August 6, 2018 Commentary

Farmer-Herder Conflicts on the Rise in Africa

Internally displaced villagers herd livestock in Turkana county, Kenya.
June 28, 2018 News Release

Nigeria: Rising Toll of Middle-Belt Violence

Urgently Step Up Investigations; Hold Attackers to Account

Men march along a truck carrying the coffins of people killed in Makurdi, Nigeria January 11, 2018.
June 27, 2018 News Release

UN: Dangerous Double Standard on Children in Conflict

Secretary-General’s ‘List of Shame’ Should Reflect Report Findings

School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015.
May 28, 2018 Dispatches

A Minute of Silence for Victims of Nigeria’s Epidemic of Violence

Civil Society Groups Call on Government to End Violence

Men march along a truck carrying the coffins of people killed in Makurdi, Nigeria January 11, 2018.
April 27, 2018 Letter

Human Rights Situation in Nigeria and Women’s Rights Concerns in Mauritania

Submission to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Wendy Isaack, researcher at Human Rights Watch, delivers a statement at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in Banjul, Gambia, November 6, 2017.
March 9, 2018 Dispatches

A Mother’s Day Gift for Amina

Ask Your Jeweler Where Their Gold and Gems Come From

“My name is Amina and I am twenty years old. I grew up here in the town of Bagega. I had six children. Three have died. Each time one died, I was so distraught and I was very traumatized.” Amina, Bagega, Zamfara state, Nigeria, 2011.
January 22, 2018 Dispatches

Nigeria Loses a Treasured Justice Advocate

Nwankwo Advocated for the ICC, Women’s Rights

Oby Nwankwo
December 3, 2017 Dispatches

Too Many Children Still Die from Pollution

UN Pollution Meeting Should Embrace Child Rights in its Resolutions

“My name is Amina and I am twenty years old. I grew up here in the town of Bagega. I had six children. Three have died. Each time one died, I was so distraught and I was very traumatized.” Amina, Bagega, Zamfara state, Nigeria, 2011.

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