N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the steps necessary to formalize the moratorium on death penalty with a view to subsequently abolish the death penalty and adhere to the resolutions of the General Assembly in this regard.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider strengthening the efforts in the area of combating trafficking of women and children by cooperating closely with countries in the region
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Formulate specific technical assistance requests in order to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and to address them to relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms, in particular to OHCHR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase its efforts to raise awareness of and prevent the spread of HIV-AIDS and provide adequate treatment and alternative care opportunities for children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue awareness-raising campaigns to eradicate FGM.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights through its thematic strategies of good governance, combating corruption, eradicating poverty and improving health conditions in the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Justice
- Poverty
- Right to health
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain an open and standing invitation to the United Nations human rights mechanisms, particularly the Special Rapporteur against torture, and speed up its submissions of pending reports to treaty bodies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all perpetrators of human rights violations are brought to justice, including the law enforcement officials suspected of committing acts of torture and ill-treatment or extrajudicial executions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek the provision of technical assistance with regard to adolescent health problems, trafficking in persons and prevention and control HIV-AIDS
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully investigate abuses by law enforcement officials, namely extra judicial killings, acts of torture and ill-treatment of detainees and arbitrary detentions and human rights violations and ensure that the perpetrators are duly punished
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to ensure an adequate political participation of ethnic minority groups as well as measures to effectively prevent the loss of land, property and resources of ethnic minority groups through, i.e. confiscation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its seven points development programme formulated by the President of the Republic
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further implement its programmes and policies in the field of human rights, in particular the National Plan of Action on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Declare a moratorium for the abolition of death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue their efforts with determination for further progress in fighting against corruption
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the political and social-economic rights of minority groups in Niger Delta, and that consultations in this regard are undertaken with these minority groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the actions aimed at raising awareness among religious and customary leaders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Issue a standing invitation to all Human Rights Council special procedures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all laws that allow violence and discrimination against women to persist
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to recognize and protect the rights of sexual and gender minorities and that the law prohibiting same-sex marriages be abrogated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Clarify its position on the death penalty, and reaffirm its commitment to a de facto moratorium
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its efforts in order to incorporate the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in its national law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Share its experiences in promoting human rights through its role as promoter of regional cooperation and development mediator in conflict resolution and peace building in the West African sub-region
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address the cultural and economic situation of ethnic minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action to tackle the backlog of prisoners who have been detained without trial or beyond the end of their sentence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand programmes of education on religious tolerance in schools and monitor and protect the rights of religious minorities-promotion of the culture of religious tolerance should become the priority of the Federal, State and Local Governments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek from the international community technical help and assistance in terms of civil and political rights, mentioned in its national report, namely, access to justice, law enforcement, and environment protection
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Justice
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fast-track the process of accession to human rights instruments to which it is not party yet, wherever possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its endeavours in the field of human rights specially when one takes into account the fact that the government has been promoting Human Rights under special circumstances of a country in transition from a long period of military rule to a fully fledged democracy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue resolutely consolidating the education system in accordance with the particular characteristics and needs of its population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019