Nigeria: Shadow Report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 62nd Ordinary Session

This shadow report is submitted in accordance with Rules 74 and 75 of ACHPR’s Rules of Procedure. It contains information about the human right situation in Nigeria and includes proposed recommendations which the ACHPR may wish to put forward to the government of Nigeria when considering the periodic report. The report covers several areas of human rights concerns including: violations in the context of the ongoing armed conflict and communal violence, torture, extrajudicial executions, death penalty, forced evictions, oil pollution and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people.

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