Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the current constitution of 1999. While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution...

and transgender (LGBT) people in Nigeria face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. LGBT rights are generally infringed upon; both...

Prostitution in Nigeria Human rights in Nigeria Crime in Nigeria "Strengthening the policy framework and response to human trafficking in Nigeria". www.unodc...

The National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (“the NHRC”), affiliated with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, was established by the...

There are several human right activists in Nigeria. This is a list of notable Nigerian human rights activists in a list. "Gani Fawehinmi: Lawyer and activist...

human rights. It airs on radio and cable television, and streams online through social media platforms and Human Rights Radio 101.1 in Abuja, Nigeria...

Child. The Children's Rights Act of 2003 expands the human rights bestowed to citizens in Nigeria's 1999 constitution to children. Although this law was...

Nigeria's Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, also known as the Oputa Panel after its leader Chukwudifu Oputa, was a commission that was...

Femi Falana, SAN (born 20 May 1958) is a Nigerian lawyer and human right activist. He is the father of a Nigerian rapper Folarin Falana popularly known as...

of Nigeria as the country is the world's largest producer of the commodity. The crop is produced in 24 of the country's 36 states. In 1999, Nigeria produced...

United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also assisted in its work by...

an anti-human trafficking organization that attempts to stop human trafficking and child labour in Nigeria. WOTCLEF's areas of focus are human trafficking...

Connected Therewith", reprinted in "Human Rights, Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion: Reflections in Light of Nigeria", Fulcrum: Renewing the Evangelical...

Olisa Agbakoba // is a Nigerian human rights activist, maritime lawyer and former President of Nigerian Bar Association. Olisa Agbakoba was born on 29...

a Nigerian human rights activist, lawyer, professor and writer. He was the former chairman of Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria) and...

was enacted as a result of many gender-based violence and human right abuse happening in Nigeria, including rape, maiming of spouse, forceful ejection from...

"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...

paper." According to Human Rights Watch, hisbah activities in Nigeria bear a similarity to other vigilante groups in that country, in that they are "made...

Human rights are moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in municipal...

national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given...

them because of a failure to prosecute those responsible for human rights abuses. Nigeria, after nearly four decades of oil production, had by the early...

Human Rights Report: Nigeria". 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. United States, Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights,...

resulting in modern-day slavery. The most common forms of modern slavery in Nigeria are human trafficking and child labor. Because modern slavery is difficult...

flaring, Nigeria)". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 27 May 2021. "Gas flaring lawsuit (re oil companies in Nigeria) | Business & Human Rights...

Human and Peoples' Rights, SERAC v Nigeria (2001), the Charter is also understood to include a right to housing and a right to food as "implicit" in the...

A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may...

Contributing to the establishment of human rights system in Africa are the United Nations, international law and the African Union which have positively...

Foundation Humanists International Human Rights First Human Rights Foundation Human Rights Internet Human Rights Watch Human Rights Without Frontiers International...

Youths for Human Rights Protection and Transparency Initiative (YARPTI) is a non governmental organization in Nigeria dedicated to promoting the well-being...

constitutional monarchy. The Human Rights Scores Dataverse ranked Japan somewhere in the middle among G7 countries on its human rights performance, below Germany...