Throughout the past month, the international human rights and religious freedom community has been buzzing about the state of affairs in Nigeria. On December 7, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Nigeria would – for the first time ever – be classified as a Country of Particular Concern with regards to violations of religious …
PRESS RELEASE Nov 18, 2020 Washington DC. WASHINGTON DC, 18 November – Jubilee Campaign submitted their report Genocide is Loading: Finding Reasonable Basis to Believe Crimes Against Humanity Occurred containing additional evidence to the International Criminal Court regarding the violence in the Middle Belt and northeast of Nigeria. WHAT DOES IT SAY? The report summarizes instances of attacks from 2013-2020 that have …
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As violence and attacks in the Northeast of Nigeria and the Middle Belt on rural communities continues, Jubilee Campaign et. al released two rejoinders to respond to Nigeria’s critique of the two independent international reports that addressed the violence. The rejoinders are to Nigeria’s response the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, …
Throughout the past two years, the international human rights and religious freedom community has been pleasantly surprised again and again after seeing Sudan’s transitional government make momentous strides to return religious freedom to the nation.
The New Humanitarian reports that Ethiopia- despite domestic and global concerns surrounding the emerging COVID-19 pandemic- publicly announced in April that it planned to transfer Eritrean refugees from Hitsats refugee camp to two others, Adi Harush and Mai Aini, in Tigray.
In August 2020, a disconcerting voice recording made its was way throughout social media in which Fulani man Ardo Bulama disparages and threatens Nigeria’s indigenous peoples and Christians, makes inflammatory and incendiary remarks, and insists that all attempts to cease Fulani activity will inevitably end in more bloodshed.
22-year-old Nigerian singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy charges, as handed down by a Kano State Sharia court in August 2020.
We would like to raise to the OfficeOffice’s attention the situation of Christians in Northern Nigeria.
