Human Rights
HumAngle’s Human Rights Desk examines gross human rights violations such as extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary arrests/detention. It also covers issues surrounding press freedom and monitors reports and activities of human rights organisations.
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Weaponised Identity: From Dreadlocks to Dialects, How Profiling Threatens Lives in Nigeria
“I wear a niqab and a full jilbab. People often tell me that I am oppressed,” says Hajja Gana, a…
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The Adamawa Children Leaving School for Labour
*Alfred Silas just turned 18. He has been in commercial farming for five years. Working on people’s farms for daily…
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Miscarriage, Childbirth in Jail: The Failure of Nigeria’s Criminal Justice System
She lost her pregnancy in prison in what she describes as “a miscarriage of justice”. The experience Ayodele Bukunmi had…
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Secrets, Silence, Survival: Inside a Nigerian Military Prison
No one recalls the road to Wawa. New detainees are blindfolded several kilometres ahead. Inmates are also blindfolded and driven…
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The Exploitative Slot Systems Targeting Desperate Job Seekers in Nigeria
After Zahra Usman* quit a job she described as toxic in a law firm that overworked and underpaid her, affecting…
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Bound by Blood, Fighting to Death: The Cousin Tribes of Adamawa
When 55-year-old Muhammad Buba, a teacher at Boshkiri Primary School, left home on July 2, family and friends had no…
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Blockage of Biafra Memory Websites Highlights Disturbing Pattern in Nigeria
She did not know her mother was a Biafran refugee until she was about 18 years old. They were watching…
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The Journalists Hounded by Victims of Armed Violence They Cover
Taiwo Adebulu got a grip on the story he had always wanted to tell in Kebbi State, North West Nigeria.…
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Massacres in Border Communities Ignite New Terror Wave in Benue State
Doowuese Kohol*, a woman in her 70s, was fast asleep on the night of Saturday, June 13, after what she…
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Children’s Education Suffers as IPOB Fighters Infiltrate Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
Nine years after the “Anglophone Crisis” in October 2016, violence has engulfed the northwestern and southwestern regions of Cameroon. The…
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