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April 11, 2024 News Release

Nigeria: 10 Years After Chibok, Schoolchildren Still at Risk

Implement Safe Schools Plan to Protect Schools, Children

The freed students of the LEA Primary and Secondary School in Kuriga at the state government house in Kaduna, Nigeria, March 25, 2024. 
September 10, 2019 News Release

Nigeria: Military Holding Children as Boko Haram Suspects

Thousands Have Been Held in Deplorable Conditions

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October 25, 2017 Commentary

Nigeria: Why Boko Haram Suspects Deserve Fair Trials

May 8, 2017 Dispatches

Nigeria Fails to Protect Freed Chibok Schoolgirls’ Privacy

Authorities Should Ensure Families’ Access to Their Daughters

A man carrying a Boko Haram flag walks past a group of 82 Chibok girls, who were held captive for three years by Islamist militants, as the girls wait to be released in exchange for several militant commanders, near Kumshe, Nigeria May 6, 2017.
March 30, 2017 Dispatches

Hundreds of Abducted Children Still Missing in Nigeria

Authorities Should Do More to Rescue Children Taken by Boko Haram

A wall painted by Boko Haram is seen in Damasak March 24, 2015.
April 11, 2016 News Release

Nigeria: Northeast Children Robbed of Education

Boko Haram’s Devastating Toll on Students, Teachers, Schools

Children look through a destroyed classroom window at Yerwa Primary School, Maiduguri, Borno state, damaged by Boko Haram during attacks in 2010 and 2013. The school, established in 1915, was the first primary school in northeast Nigeria. © 2015 Bede Shep
February 4, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Protect Lives, Not Just Territory, Against Attacks

Fire-burns scars and building destruction in Dalori, Nigeria, February 2, 2016.
November 24, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Ensure Basic Rights for Boko Haram’s Victims

Chiroma Maina holds a picture of her abducted daughter Comfort Amos, next to her husband Jonah and her daughter Helen, at their home in Maiduguri, Nigeria on May 21, 2014.
July 29, 2015 Commentary

A Long Way Home: Life for the Women Rescued from Boko Haram

Chiroma Maina holds a picture of her abducted daughter Comfort Amos, next to her husband Jonah and her daughter Helen, at their home in Maiduguri, Nigeria on May 21, 2014.
June 10, 2015 Commentary

Anatomy of a Boko Haram Massacre

March 26, 2015 Report

Nigeria: At Least 1,000 Civilians Dead Since January

Urgent Need for Aid, Protection for Fleeing Civilians

January 14, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: What Really Happened in Baga, Nigeria?

October 11, 2012 Commentary

Nigerians caught in the crossfire

March 7, 2012 News Release

Nigeria: Boko Haram Targeting Schools

Attacks Threaten Children, Undermine Right to Education

January 23, 2012 News Release

Nigeria: Boko Haram Widens Terror Campaign

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