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	JUDGE Christopher Gregory WEERAMANTRY
		‘The Right to Self-determination’ Prospects for the Establishment of an Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission in the South Pacific, 1985
		1987 – Member, Steering Committee, United Nations University Project on turning technology to the service of human rights.
		Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 11 June 1998 in the Case Concerning Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v Nigeria), Preliminary Objection 1999 ICJ Reports, Vol.I, pp.42-48.
	www.wicper.org /Judge%27s%20CV.htm (2858 words)

	Derechos: Human Rights in Nigeria
		Since the death of Gen. Abacha in June 1998, the human rights situation in Nigeria has improved considerably.
		Human Rights & the Environment in Nigeria - Sierra club
		Prison conditions remain extremely poor, inter-ethnic violence has lead to many deaths, and corruption continues to be a large problem.
	www.derechos.org /nigeria/central.html (234 words)

	Human Rights Day
		Human rights are still at risk from Burma to Nigeria, from Belarus to China.
		As human rights advocates, defenders, and educators, more than anyone else, the people in this room and those whom you represent give life to the words of the Universal Declaration: you shine the light of freedom on oppression, speak on behalf of the voiceless, spark the conscience of the world.
		The idea of a global declaration of rights emerged from the trauma of global war -- in which human rights were the first casualty.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19971210-10278.html (1692 words)

	Peace Corps Online Human Rights
		Informed sources have told us that the decision to withdraw the Peace Corps from Nigeria early this year was due in large part to a deteriorating human rights climate there
		Report on "Possibilities for Peace in Colombia: A Human Rights Perspective" co-chaired by Congressman Farr, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia
		Friends of Liberia Calls For Release of Human Rights Activist and Reopening of Independent Newspaper
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/2015810.html (160 words)

	The Human Rights Law Service - HURILAWS
		Public Policy Group Working Towards Human Rights, Good Governance and Development.
		Stakeholders Workshop on Enforcing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Nigeria
		L-R: Frances Ogwo, Executive Director - HURILAWS; Elizabeth Joseph - Executive Director, Collective Capacity for Peace and Development (CCPD) at the Stakeholders Workshop on ESC Rights, Lagos.
	www.hurilaws.org (131 words)

	Business & Human Rights : Security issues & conflict zones: General
		Business and Human Rights Resource Centre takes no position on the diverse views presented in linked material by the various commentators, organisations and companies -- nor can the website guarantee the factual accuracy of all the articles and reports to which the library is linked.
		But times are changing, thanks to a coalition consisting of plaintiffs from the developing world and aggressive human rights groups...[that] are taking multinationals from all over the world to court on the issue of human rights.
		Police in southern Nigeria arrested three activists of a minority rights group who were protesting against the activities of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, the group's spokesman said.
	www.business-humanrights.org /Categories/Issues/Security/SecurityissuesconflictzonesGeneral (131 words)

	NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
		National Action Plan for Promotion and Protection Of Human rights in Nigeria.
		NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this website.
		Welcome to National Human Rights Commission Home Page
	www.nigeriarights.org (131 words)

	Amnesty International - Working To Protect Human Rights Worldwide
		Nigeria: Harassment of a human rights defender and unlawful arrest and detention of three others in their campaign to bring Charles Taylor to justice
		Violence against women is the greatest human rights scandal of our times.
		Amnesty International calls for action to stop governments using torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the “war on terror” and to challenge attempts to defend their use.
	www.amnesty.org (131 words)

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	INCORE : Home Page
		The African launch will take place on December 12 in Benin City, Nigeria..
		As part of an ongoing series of events and workshops, LILP and the CRESCO Trust held a workshop on 'Building Community or Building Peace?' with a contribution from Antoine Rutayisire, Vice Chair of National Commission for Unity and Reconciliation, Rwanda.
		INCORE's latest review issue of peace and conflict-related literature is now available.
	www.incore.ulst.ac.uk (174 words)

	Amnesty International Canada
		Ten years after the execution of writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists, new evidence shows that the peoples of Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta continue to face death and devastation at the hands of the security forces.
		The review of Canada's human rights record highlighted critical areas that must be addressed, says Amnesty International Canada.
		Watch for our television special a powerful and moving presentation of Amnesty International's human rights work.
	www.amnesty.ca (698 words)

	[PRISONACT] ACT NOW ! APPEAL for AMINA KURAMI - Nigeria
		Nigeria has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and = has incorporated the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights into its = 1981 constitution.
		International Human Rights Violations If Amina Lawal Kurami were to be stoned-to-death she would be denied the right to life as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights = and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR).
		Nigeria has = also ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All forms = of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention Against = Torture and has signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the = Elimination of All forms of Discrimination.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2002-May/005198.html (1471 words)

	Nigeria: Unheard voices - Amnesty International
		Human rights and women’s rights organizations in Nigeria believe that violence in the family is the most prevalent form of violence against women in Nigeria.
		States may be held accountable for violating their rights under international human rights laws not to suffer torture and inhuman treatment or punishment.
		Under international human rights law, states must exercise "due diligence" to secure women’s rights to equality, life, liberty and security, and to freedom from discrimination, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, whether or not the discrimination is perpetrated by state agents or private citizens.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engafr440042005 (16714 words)

	Reuters AlertNet - Nigeria: Obasanjo Must Withdraw Bill to Criminalize Gay Rights
		We urge you, as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to act in accordance with Nigeria's legal obligations under international human rights law and withdraw this bill."
		In a letter to President Obasanjo, a coalition of 16 human rights organizations urged him to disavow the bill, which contravenes international law and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights that ensure rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly.
		Australia, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which monitors states' compliance with the ICCPR, held that sexual orientation should be understood to be a status protected from discrimination under these articles.
	www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/HRW/e846f6f8aa040916f88b9cc86c16a79a.htm (962 words)

	PFII Hears on Demolitions and Forced Evictions of Ogoni People from the Agip Water Fronts
		In two separate reports recently, the Nigeria government was condemned for the increasing violations of human rights of peoples in the Niger Delta by both state and non-state actors.
		In the report titled "Nigeria: Are human rights in the pipeline", Amnesty International accuses the Nigerian government of failing to "rigorously protect human rights" in the Niger Delta.
		She also said that human rights group in the country are operating in a state of insecurity.
	www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=43&par=2539 (962 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Letter to President Obasanjo Regarding Bill to Criminalize Gay Rights (Page 1 of 3)
		As human rights organizations based in Nigeria, on the African continent, and internationally, we write with deep concern over a proposed bill that would introduce criminal penalties for relationships and marriage ceremonies between persons of the same sex as well as for public advocacy or associations supporting the rights of lesbian and gay people.
		Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is also prohibited under other international human rights treaties to which Nigeria is a state party.
		The UN Human Rights Committee has since urged states not only to repeal laws criminalizing homosexuality but also to enshrine the prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation into their constitutions or other fundamental laws.
	allafrica.com /stories/200603230727.html (693 words)

	Legal Advocacy
		We are concerned that his alleged recent arrest is a part of a continuing pattern of persecution and harassment of human rights advocates by the Nigerian government, which reports suggest has intensified since the execution of nine activists in November of 1995.
		Agbakoba has been detained by the Nigerian State Security Service (SSS) on several occasions as a result of his work on behalf of his human rights work in Nigeria and his outspoken criticism of the Nigerian government's policies.
		Olisa Agbakoba violates his right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, which are guaranteed in the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (articles 19 and 21 respectively) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples's Rights (articles 9 and 11, respectively).
	www.abanet.org /legadv/congletters/106th/in231698.html (743 words)

	ISHR group Nigeria
		ISHR group Nigeria has programmes on democracy monitoring, civic education, human rights education, campaigns for gender equality and women's rights, education on the rights of the child, campaigns against the death sentence and inhuman treatment, campaigns for economic and social rights as well as general peace education.
		Their main focus is thus on youth education in human rights, the rule of law and civil society.
		The ISHR national group Nigeria, formerly known as Youth League International, officially became a national group of ISHR at the International Council meeting in April 2002.
	www.ishr.org /sections-groups/nigeria/nigeria.htm (189 words)

	BSR » Business for Social Responsibility - Overview of Business and Human Rights
		While human rights-oriented shareholder resolutions once focused on divestment from South Africa, they have now expanded to call on companies to divest from Burma and Nigeria; adopt corporate human rights policies; conduct “independent monitoring” of their suppliers’ labor practices; and address the issue of the living wage.
		Applying human rights principles thoroughly, consistently and impartially in a company's global operations can contribute to the development of legal systems in which contracts are enforced fairly, bribery and corruption is less prevalent and all business entities have equal access to legal process and equal protection under the law.
		In addition, human rights issues may arise in locations with which staff are unfamiliar, or in situations which involve complex political, economic, cultural, social and other issues.
	www.bsr.org /CSRResources/IssueBriefDetail.cfm?DocumentID=49038 (6920 words)

	BBC NEWS Africa Sharia 'used in Nigeria politics'
		Governors in the north of Nigeria are using Sharia, while at the same time condoning human rights abuses under the system, Human Rights Watch said.
		Governors in Nigeria introduced the criminal aspect of Islamic law as a political tool, according to the pressure group, Human Rights Watch.
		Many of these people, the report says, have been tried without adequate legal representation, convicted on confessions extracted under police torture and sentenced by judges who are improperly trained.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3675160.stm (503 words)

	Nigeria on the Internet
		Site for human rights groups, civil society organizations in Nigeria and for donors.
		These abuses have been tolerated, and sometimes actively encouraged, by state government authorities." Human Rights Watch is in New York city.
		Includes the 1956 trip to Nigeria of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the first local government election in Lagos 1950, Commonwealth conferences, the Emir of Katsina, visit to the U.K. of Nigerian emirs, the 1952 opening of Ibadan University, Nigerian Independence 1960, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton's tour of Nigeria 1952.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/nigeria.html (9393 words)

	Nigeria. In: Amnesty International Report 2001
		Human rights lawyer Gani Fawehinmi had challenged his detention without charge or trial from January to November 1996 on the grounds that it violated rights guaranteed by Nigeria's Constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, incorporated into Nigerian law in 1983.
		The federal government did not challenge the unconstitutionality of some of the new state laws, but advised citizens to seek legal redress in the higher courts, including the Supreme Court.
		This overturned a March 1996 ruling by the Federal High Court that international legal obligations were overruled by military decrees which prohibited recourse to the courts.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2001.nsf/webafrcountries/NIGERIA?OpenDocument (1917 words)

	Untitled Document
		We are all living witnesses to the seemingly fruitless effort of the Ogonis to press for Justice in respect of ecological disaster associated with oil exploration before the UN's Commission on Human Rights.
		The reason is simply that Nigeria as a coastal State is the subject of international law as against the people of its coastal region.
		A Contribution to the Discussion at the World Conference of Mayors Being Held in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria on the 16th - 20th July, 2001.
	www.deltastate.gov.ng /utuama.htm (2060 words)

	THE CHALLENGES FACING NIGERIA'S FOREIGN POLICY
		President Obasanjo and Foreign Minister Sule Lamido’s task is to bring Nigeria out of this dead end by consolidating democracy at home, respecting fundamental human rights and encouraging liberal economic reforms, good governance and transparency with a view to boosting international economic cooperation with G7 countries as well as the dynamic Asian economies (5).
		These were all terrible acts and diplomatic blunders because they underrated the importance of internal policy including democratic reforms and the place of human rights in international relations and diplomacy.
		Nigeria’s bad image has not been repaired and those who contributed toward this should be humble in their utterances against the choices made by a democratically elected government.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v3/v3i3a16.htm (2060 words)

	PETITION URGING JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION OF SHARIA CRIMINAL JURISDICTION IN NIGERIA Petition
		Nigeria as a signatory to many international human rights conventions and treaties should not be in in breach of its legal commitments.
		Please save Nigerians, especially women, who have been the major victims,from punishments and restrictions which may be in violation of international human rights standards.
		We support your affirmation that conferring Criminal jurisdiction on Sharia courts is a violation of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
	www.petitiononline.com /wrw/petition.html (2060 words)

	Nigeria: HRW Letter (Excerpts)
		The full text can be found at: http://www.cldc.howard.edu/~ndmorg/Letters/HRWAbacha.html] May 10,1996 General Sani Abacha Chairman, Provisional Ruling Council State House, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Nigeria Dear General Abacha: I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch/Africa to protest the continuing detention of human rights and pro-democracy activists in Nigeria.
		Ransome-Kuti is being held in Katsina prison, in the north of Nigeria.
		After being held at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS) in Shangisha, near Lagos, Chief Fawehinmi was transferred to a prison in Bauchi State, in the north of Nigeria.
	www.africaaction.org /docs96/nig9605.hrw.htm (2749 words)

	Nigeria: Medical letter writing action: Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti and Dr Frederick Fasehun
		Nigeria: Ten Years After Saro-Wiwa Execution, New Evidence of Human Rights Violations in Oil-Rich Niger Delta, Says Amnesty International
		The Nigerian authorities arrested a number of journalists, human rights activists and others for speaking out about the arrests, interrogations and secret trials.
		Despite a court order that the accused be held at the Lagos Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau (FIIB), he was subsequently moved to the Inter-Centre, a detention centre of the State Security Service (SSS), where he was held incommunicado.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/africa/document.do?id=21316C734B848B418025690000692CCF (1323 words)

	Womens-rights-africa Information Page
		The International Women’s Human Rights Clinic (the Clinic) at Georgetown University Law Center and its African partners work to promote and advance women's human rights throughout the world.
		The Clinic’s current programs are focused on improving women’s lives in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda through concrete legal reform measures and public education designed to ensure that the new laws will be effectively implemented for women.
		The primary areas the Clinic and its African NGO partners Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa — Ghana (LAWA-Ghana); Women’s Rights and
	lists.kabissa.org /mailman/listinfo/womens-rights-africa (412 words)

	Nigeria: Revenge in the Name of Religion: III. The Conflict in Plateau State
		Human Rights and Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria,” September 2004.
		[12] In this respect, the evolution of the conflict in Plateau mirrors that of other states, such as Kaduna, where the religious element has been introduced with devastating consequences. See Human Rights Watch report “The ‘Miss World riots’: continued impunity for killings in Kaduna,” July 2003.
		The population of Plateau State is ethnically and religiously diverse, like that of most of the central states of Nigeria known as the Middle Belt. While Christians are in the majority, Muslims make up a large minority
	www.hrw.org /reports/2005/nigeria0505/3.htm (409 words)

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		ABIDJAN, 19 Sep 2002 (IRIN) - Several critics of the government of Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria have received death threats following the assassination of lawyer Barnabas Igwe and his wife on 1 September, the US-based Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday.
		Igwe and close colleagues who denounced abuses by the state government had received direct threats from senior officials, both face to face and through telephone calls on personal mobile phones, according to Human Rights Watch.
		Calling for an independent probe into the incident, HRW said Igwe and his wife were killed by a group of assailants who attacked them with machetes and shot them several times, then ran them over with their vehicle.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=29981&SelectRegion=West_Africa (544 words)

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