MEDIA
Statements and releases issued by Global Rights, and the joint statements we have signed alongside other civil society organisations, on the events and decisions we have asked the public to hold to account.
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Five years later, accountability for this gross crime against Nigeria’s democracy remains elusive. No one has been held responsible for the killings. Instead, Nigeria’s civic space continues to shrink, and the same patterns of state overreach persist.
Eleven years later, at least 91 of these 276 girls remain unaccounted for. Many were forcefully married to their captors, some died, and the insecurity that had marked Northeast Nigeria has metastasized and spread across the North-West and North-Central of the country.
Global Rights expresses deep sorrow over the recent petrol tanker explosion in Niger State that claimed at least 70 lives, and left countless families in mourning. This devastating incident underscores the urgent need for comprehensive measures to prevent such recurring tragedies.
The Community of Practice Against Mass Atrocities, under the auspices of Nigeria Mourns, expresses profound sadness and outrage over the avoidable and horrifying killing of innocent citizens by a Nigerian Air Force airstrike in Tungar Kara, Maradun Local Government Area, Zamfara State, on January 11, 2025.
Women with Disabilities have condemned the abject neglect, abuse and exclusion they have been facing in Nigeria. Participants from four (4) Northwest states – Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto – and FCT asserted at a townhall meeting organised by Global Rights in Abuja.
Global Rights reiterates its call on the Nigerian government to respect its citizens’ right to protest and desist from further aggravating protesters across the country. It also calls on protesters to be law-abiding and peaceful in their conduct.
Global Rights calls on the Nigerian government to respect its citizens’ right to protest and desist from further aggravating protesters across the country. It also calls on protesters to be law-abiding and peaceful in their conduct.
The National Business and Human Rights Roundtable (NBH2R) commends the Federal Government for approving the National Action Plan on Human Rights in Nigeria.
The Incident Centre for Election Atrocities (ICEA) commends Nigerians for their show of patriotism and courage demonstrated through their turnout and orderly conduct at the polls on February 25, 2023.
Ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, the Incident Centre for Election Atrocities (ICEA) calls on all Nigerians to shun violence and insist on a free, fair and peaceful election.
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Global Rights strongly condemns the murder of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, by students of the same institution over alleged blasphemy.
A joint coalition of CSOs in Nigeria, of which Global Rights was a part, called on the Federal Government to initiate prompt rescue of abducted citizens in the Kaduna-Abuja train attack.
The Community Of Practice Against Mass Atrocities, and the Joint Action Civil Society Committee under the aegis of Nigeria Mourns, condemn in strong terms the increased spate of insecurity across the country.
Nigeria is in dire straits. All over the country, Nigerian citizens, including children, are killed daily by terrorists and criminals as well as in extra-judicial killings by state actors with the government doing little or nothing about it.