No One To Trust, Nowhere To Turn In Nigeria
Gruesome footage gathered by Amnesty researchers implicates Nigeria’s Military in war crimes on a truly horrifying scale.
Gruesome footage gathered by Amnesty researchers implicates Nigeria’s Military in war crimes on a truly horrifying scale.
Two weeks after the kidnapping, the Nigerian government has yet to communicate a plan or take action, even as reports of the girls being sold into sexual slavery or forced marriage are popping up.
When it comes to oil spills in the Niger Delta, it’s not what you’ve suffered or what you know; it’s what you can prove.
With the stroke of a pen, the President has essentially turned Nigeria into one of the world’s least tolerant societies.
Same sex conduct is banned in Nigeria. But now, brutal homophobic persecution has hit a new, unthinkable low.
Since the beginnings of 2012, at least 70 teachers and over 100 schoolchildren and students have been killed or wounded.
Oil companies spill more oil into the Niger Delta each year than was spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
An increase in political, ethnic and religious violence risks threatening the stability of Nigeria’s April elections. A new briefing highlights how hundreds of people have been killed in politically-motivated, communal and sectarian violence across Nigeria ahead of presidential and parliamentary … Please continue reading.
Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth International today filed an official complaint against oil giant Shell for breaches of basic standards for responsible business for its pollution in the Niger Delta.
Over the past decade, Nigeria has seen its fair share of violence. On January 17th, Nigeria came back into the headlines as violence erupted in the central city of Jos and in surrounding villages. Although there is disagreement over the exact … Please continue reading.