Nigeria

• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights 1
• Australia: Federal Court 2
• Australia: Federal Magistrates Court 3
• Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal 8
• Austria: Higher Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) 2
• Canada: Federal Court 16
• Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 13
• Czech Republic: Supreme Administrative Court 1
• European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union 1
• France: Commission des Recours des Réfugiés (CRR) 1
• France: Conseil d'Etat 1
• France: Cour nationale du droit d'asile 3
• Germany: Bundesverfassungsgericht 1
• Germany: Verwaltungsgericht 1
• Hong Kong: High Court 2
• India: High Courts 1
• Ireland: High Court 38
• Ireland: Supreme Court 15
• Malta: Constitutional Court 1
• New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority 8
• Nigeria: High Court of Justice of Borno State 1
• Poland: Provincial (Voivodship) Administrative Court 1
• South Africa: High Court 1
• South Africa: Refugee Appeal Board 1
• UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
• United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority 13
• United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) 13
• United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) 10
• United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) 10
• United Kingdom: High Court (Northern Ireland) 1
• United Kingdom: Supreme Court 1
• United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) 3
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 3
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 9
• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 7
• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 1
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit 1

• Abduction 2
• Access to procedures 3
• Acts of persecution 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 17
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 5
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 2
• Catholic 1
• Children's rights 7
• Children-at-risk 3
• Christian 23
• Citizenship law 3
• Complementary forms of protection 12
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 3
• Corruption 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 33
• Credibility assessment 31
• Crimes against humanity 2
• Criminal justice 12
• Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
• Death penalty 1
• Decision on admissibility 1
• Denial of nationality 1
• Denial of refugee status 7
• Deportation / Forcible return 58
• Derivative status 2
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 1
• EU Qualification Directive 4
• Effective protection 9
• Effective remedy 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 18
• Exceptional leave to remain (ELR) 1
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Expedited procedures 2
• Expulsion 2
• Extradition 1
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 11
• Forced marriage 6
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 15
• Freedom of expression 1
• Freedom of movement 1
• Freedom of religion 1
• Freedom of speech 1
• Fresh / New claim 6
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Grounds for persecution 3
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
• Ibo 4
• Iko 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Illegitimate children 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Immigration law 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 28
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• Jurisdiction 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 13
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 8
• Mental health 2
• National security / Public order 1
• Naturalization 1
• Non-refoulement 3
• Non-state agents of persecution 30
• Opposition 1
• Passports 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 23
• Persecution of family members 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 8
• Political groups 2
• Political parties 5
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Prosecution vs persecution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 7
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 7
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugees 1
• Refugees sur place 2
• Regional instruments 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 19
• Religious discrimination 2
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 26
• Residence permits / Residency 6
• Right to education 2
• Right to family life 36
• Right to life 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 13
• SGBV 9
• Safe third country 1
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Sharia law 2
• Single heads of household 4
• Social group persecution 29
• Standard of proof 2
• State protection 15
• Statelessness 1
• Sur place persecution 3
• Suspensive effect 2
• Temporary admission 1
• Trafficking in persons 11
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 5
• Travel documents 1
• Unlawful departure 1
• Visas 4
• Well-founded fear of persecution 10
• Women-at-risk 9
• Yoruba 5

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• AlertNet - Nigeria
• Amnesty International - Nigeria
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Nigeria
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Nigeria
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Nigeria
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Nigeria
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Nigeria
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Nigeria
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Nigeria
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Nigeria
• ReliefWeb - Nigeria
• UNHCR - Nigeria
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Nigeria
• United States Department of State - Nigeria
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Nigeria