by admin_HRWF | Apr 30, 2021 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Prominent figure has been detained since April 2020 without charge and is accused of blasphemy By Emmanuel Akinwotu The Guardian (28.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3xDrU9U – The United Nations has condemned Nigerian authorities for failing to release a...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 26, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
On 21 December 2020, a judge at the High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, ruled that Mubarak Bala should be immediately released from detention in Kano State, where he has been held since April 2020. Humanists Int’l (21.12.2020) – https://bit.ly/3rqrfFY –...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 10, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Nigerian women use nudity to turn traditional ideas of protest on their heads. By Bright Alozie The Conversation (03.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3m76Cf7 – Social media went abuzz on July 23, 2020, when hundreds of women – mostly naked – staged a protest in...
by admin_HRWF | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
HRWF (13.08.2020) – Human Rights Without Frontiers condemns the death sentence by hanging issued by a Nigerian Sharia court in Kano against a 22-year-old singer for allegedly insulting the Prophet in a song that he wrote and circulated on WhatsApp. ...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 30, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Poor Nigerian inmates can wait years for their cases to go to trial, but now a group of lawyers are fighting the system. By Nosmot Gbadamosi Al Jazeera (24.06.2020) – https://bit.ly/2Bmlgg0 – On a breezy February morning at the height of the...
