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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‘Nigeria’s Ordinary President’: BBC Reporter Says Life Under Threat, Calls For Help
BBC journalist, Peter Nkanga, who reported how popular radio personality, Ahmed Isah, assaulted a criminal suspect, says his life has…
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Relatively Few Women Have Been Detained At Giwa Barracks. Ya’ana Was There Twice.
“Hajja Ya’ana has come!” Unlike the other people she entered with, Ya’ana Kaumi*, 42, was not a strange face to…
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The Discreet Lives Of Women Living With HIV In Nigerian IDP Camps
Hajiya*, 30, was out of town when Boko Haram militants attacked Bama in 2014. By the time she returned, her…
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Ordinary Ahmed: Broadcaster’s Excesses A Reflection Of Nigeria’s Weak Justice System?
In Nov. 2020, Susan allegedly tied the arms and legs of her niece, six-year-old Rachel and, accusing her of witchcraft,…
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French Journalist Abducted In Mali Pleads For Freedom
A French journalist Olivier Dubois kidnapped last month while working in Mali’s northern city of Gao, is appealing to regain…
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French Embassy In Chad Denies Allegation Of Pressurising Civil Society Leaders
The French government has reacted to allegations in Chad that it was putting pressure on civil society leaders to tune…
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Attacks On Journalists, Media Organisations Shrinking Civic Space – SERAP
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a legal and advocacy organisation in Nigeria, has demanded that attacks on journalists and…
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Children With Disabilities Suffer In Sokoto Over Failure To Domesticate Child Rights Act
One moment, 16-year-old Aliyu Bello is sitting on a couch, stretching his arms playfully and beaming a smile through his…
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Family Wants Answers Years After 19-Year-Old Was Hit By Stray Bullet During 2019 Elections
On the eve of Nigeria’s 2019 general elections, Daniel Ihiene Usman shared a post on Facebook encouraging people to stay…
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Rule Of Déby’s Son In Chad Unconstitutional, Says Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has observed that how the Chadian government approached the death of former President Idriss Déby by…
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