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USCIRF has been recommending Nigeria for designation as a Country of Particular Concern since 2009 in their annual reports, and its most recent 2021 report raised new concerns about the recent application of the Sharia penal code in northern Nigerian states, particularly in regards to a court recently sentencing a Sufi singer to death for alleged blasphemy. The Federal Court has since called for a retrial, …
Jubilee Campaign was honored to have had the privilege of hosting a side event to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee, titled “On Stemming Role of Criminal Groups in Contemporary Slavery Within Nigeria, With a Focus on Women and Children”. Our event was focused on raising the astounding frequency of mass kidnappings of predominantly …
Nigeria As in just about every year of Jubilee Campaign’s operation, Nigeria has been a major focus of our work. In addition to major domestic issues such as governmental corruption [Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics’ December 2019 Survey on Corruption as Experienced by the Population revealed that Nigerian civilians perceive police officers, tax/revenue officers, prosecutors, …
This Thursday, 30 June 2021, the United States Department of State released the new 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) which, in addition to providing brief yet comprehensive country profiles for each nation with regards to their trafficking mitigation progress and setbacks, also discusses issues such as trafficking within and among families, the compounded …
On 21 April 2021, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released its Annual Report 2021, in which they compile a list of countries recommended for ‘CPC’ status by the United States Department of State. ‘CPC’s, or ‘Countries of Particular Concern’, are countries whose governments have “engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing and egregious …
This Wednesday, April 14, 2021, is the seventh anniversary of the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping, during which Boko Haram Islamist militants abducted a total of 276 Christian schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. The kidnapping garnered responses and condemnations from numerous countries – including Canada, the United States, the European Union, Israel, …
In February 2021, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released its updated factsheet on the pervasive violence in northern Nigeria at the hands of radical Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), who, together, have caused no less than 37,500 civilian deaths within the past decade. Boko Haram’s …
Islamist Militant Groups in Nigeria Remain Perhaps the Largest Threat to the Nation Read More »
On 16 January 2021, the European Union Parliament issued an official resolution regarding the deteriorating security in Nigeria due of course to many factors, but specifically religiously motivated violence at the hands of radical Islamist jihadists such as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province: “The European Parliament, whereas according to the Humanitarian Aid …
European Union Parliament Condemns Religiously-Motivated Violence in Nigeria Read More »
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 …
