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Amnesty International report shines light on 15 human rights issues in Nigeria


London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights, Amnesty International, has launched its 2017/2018 edition annual report detailing state of human rights in 159 countries, including Nigeria.
TheNewsGuru reports the 409-page report, which lists human rights abuses from the civil war in Syria to Police brutality in Kenya, covers all major human rights issues in Nigeria.
“The armed group Boko Haram continued to carry out attacks, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Reports continued of extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and torture and other ill-treatment, which, in some cases, led to deaths in custody.
“Conditions in military detention conditions were harsh. Communal violence occurred across the country. Thousands of people were forcibly evicted from their homes,” the report noted.
The report listed the fifteen human rights challenges facing Nigeria to include armed conflict; arbitrary arrests and detentions; internally displaced people (IDPs); lack of accountability; unlawful killings; torture and other ill-treatment, and communal violence.
Other challenges the report listed are right to housing and forced evictions; women’s rights; human rights defenders; freedom of assembly and association; freedom of expression; corporate accountability; rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people, and death penalty.
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