This briefing is Amnesty International’s investigation into Tiger Base, the Anti Kidnapping Unit of the Nigeria Police Imo state Command. It uncovers entrenched human rights violations, including prolonged arbitrary detention, torture, extortion, and enforced disappearances – including the removal of children from their mothers without records. Detainees are held in degrading conditions. Cells are overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and unsanitary – resulting in severe health complications and, in some cases, death. These practices violate Nigeria’s Constitution, the Anti Torture Act 2017, and international human rights law.

Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria are still being neglected by the country’s authorities, one year after Amnesty International’s landmark report and launch of the #EmpowerOurGirls campaign.

In Nigeria, women’s rights took a new blow after senators rejected for the third time five bills that sought to promote gender equality in the country. We need to unite in solidarity to end traditions, practices, and laws that harm women. Take action now and demand the National Assembly to reconsider all gender bills.

Older people have suffered in unique ways from the conflict that has raged for almost a decade in Northeast Nigeria, with many starved or slaughtered in their homes or left to languish and die in squalid, unlawful military detention, Amnesty International said in a new report today.The 67-page report, “My heart is in pain”: Older people’s experience of conflict, displacement, and detention in Northeast Nigeria, shows how both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military have committed atrocities against older women and men, with nobody held to account. It also focuses on how displaced older people are consistently overlooked by the humanitarian response.