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  • SERAP: President Tinubu’s attack on the civic space going too far

    Responding to the invasion of the Abuja office of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Isa Sanusi, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, said: “Amnesty International received a disturbing report of the unlawful invasion of the Abuja office of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) by operatives of the DSS. President Bola Tinubu is going…

  • Nigeria: Arrest of NLC President a new record of impunity

    Responding to the unlawful arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, by the Department of State Services (DSS), Isa Sanusi, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, said: “Amnesty International strongly condemns the unlawful arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, by the Department of State Services…

  • Nigeria: Failure to tackle rape crisis emboldens perpetrators and silences survivors

    Endemic rape under-reported due to stigma, victim blaming  Police failure to investigate sexual violence deprives survivors of justice   11,200 rape cases reported last year, including children raped to death  Despite the Nigerian authorities’ declaration of a “state of emergency” on sexual and gender-based violence, rape persists at crisis levels with most survivors denied justice,…

  • Nigeria: Failure to tackle rape crisis emboldens perpetrators and silences survivors

    Endemic rape under-reported due to stigma, victim blaming  Police failure to investigate sexual violence deprives survivors of justice   11,200 rape cases reported last year, including children raped to death  Despite the Nigerian authorities’ declaration of a “state of emergency” on sexual and gender-based violence, rape persists at crisis levels with most survivors denied justice,…