Country Information
Nigeria
Nigeria
Freedom House Rating
Partly-Free
Population
206,139,587
GDP per Capita
$2,085
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Human rights record
- Extrajudicial and arbitrary killings
- Torture
- Use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property
- Lack of judicial independence
- Restricted freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement
- Human trafficking
- Early and forced marriages
- Criminalization of status and same-sex sexual conduct
- Forced and bonded labor
UN condemnations of Nigeria
- UNHRC Resolutions: 0
- UNGA Resolutions: 0
- CSW Resolutions: 0
- Commissions of Inquiry: 0
Current memberships in UN bodies
- Commission on the Status of Women 47-nation body on gender equality and the empowerment of women
- Committee on NGOs ECOSOC committee that accredits and supervises the UN activity of human rights NGOs
- ECOSOC A key UN organ that regulates human rights groups, shapes the composition of UN women’s rights bodies, and legislates on issues from internet freedom to treatment of prisoners
- UN Women Executive Board Oversees agency of 2,000 employees working for gender equality and the empowerment of women
Membership in UNHRC
2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Voting record on Israel at UN General Assembly (2015 - Present)
- 0% For Israel 0 resolutions
- 95% Against Israel 95 resolutions
- 5% Abstain on Israel 5 resolutions
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Voting History on Israel resolutions at the General Assembly
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