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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday applauded the European Union for donating 50 million euro (approximately $55,435,000 USD) to the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF). The MNJTF was created by Lake Chad...

A report released on Sunday by the Kaduna State Government stated, among other things, that "he force used by the Nigerian Army resulting in the death of the 349 IMN members was disproportionate" and called...

In a report released Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) documented numerous human rights violations committed by Cameroon authorities in the country's crackdown on Boko Haram . In a military campaign that AI West and Central...

In his report issued Thursday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed shock at the increasing number of children recruited and killed in armed conflicts in several countries, including Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran and South Sudan. Ban asked...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated there have been 269 verified human rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) during his report to the UN Security Council earlier this week. According to the...

Nearly 150 individuals, including 11 children, have died this year in Nigeria's military detention barracks, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. According to the report, the Giwa detention barracks detains around 1,200 people, many of whom...

US Secretary of State John Kerry released the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2015 on Wednesday, pointing to "a global governance crisis" in is prefatory statement. The secretary cited the "accelerating trend by both state and...

The United Nations and African human rights experts urged the Nigerian government to "escalate efforts" to locate and rescue people abducted by Boko Haram. The experts also implored the governments to keep those whose family...

Sudan's State Minister of Social Welfare on Sunday signed a United Nations (UN) action plan that will establish new measures to protect children from armed conflict. Under the new agreement,...

Rita Izsāk-Ndiaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, said Monday that at least 250 million people worldwide face "appalling and dehumanizing" discrimination based on caste and similar systems of "inherited" status. Presenting a report to the...