Human rights

Human rights and their importance in the population: Information from Amnesty International, one of the most biggest human rights organziations worldwide

1. How does the people deal with human rights?


The situation in Nigeria is very bad. A lot of people suffer under this brutal condition and can't find a way out of this hell. In the prisons, there are too many people who were mistreated by the officers and should have to sleep in small rooms with a lot of other inmates.
The hygiene is a big catastrophe and a lot of the people in the prisons are taken ill with tuberculosis and HIV. But instead of these horrible circumstances, the people don't get any medecine help. That raises up the mortality rate and no one of the prison officers tries to change the situation. Quite the opposite; they mistreat and torture them to wring some informations out of them.


2. How many people were killed by the government and the soldiers?

For Nigeria, it's still normal to kill criminal people. The executions didn't decrease in the last years. Since 1983, the official number of killing acts amounts to 1200 people. In 1977, it reduces itself on 33 people. 43 people are condemned to death. 800 people sat in prisons in the very same year.


3. What happends with the kids?

3.1. Are they killed, too?

In the northern part of Nigeria, there are a lot of muslims. Their belief and their rights allows them to kill criminal underage kids. This islamic right is known as "Sharia".
One of the victims were Chidiebere Onuoha. In 1997, he was 17 years old and was killed by soldiers in front of a lot of people who wanted to escort the killing act.
But the UN can't accept these rituals and agree a treat with Nigeria, which stops the murder of somebody.

3.2. What should they have to do in the population and how does the people handle with them ?

The life of the kids is very sad and is informed by violence, poverty, illness and a lot of hard work. Nearly 13 % underage persons in the age of 14 in Nigeria have to work under bad circumstances. The armed forces use a big group of the working kids to train them and send them into foreign countrys for defending Nigeria.
But also the life of the girls seems horrible. The girls are mistreated by soldiers and officers and get big and terrible wounds of the sexual violence, which don't heal for the rest of their life. Because of this extrem rape, a lot of kids contract with AIDS.



4. What happends with homosexual people?

In Nigeria, the homosexual people are persecuted by the officers and the government. Their law, the "sharia" rights allows them kill people, who love the same gender. In 12 federal states in North Nigeria, they introduce this law and kill them by stoning the people. Some of them were killed, some of the have to go into prison for the rest of their life.
The law with the title "The Prohibition of Relationships Between Persons of the Same Sex, Celebration of Marriage by Them, and for Other Matters Connected Therewith" represent what the government think about homosexual people. This law violates the condition of Nigeria and every agreement of national human rights organization like the UN. Some campaigns in Nigeria which defends these rights have to go into prison for five years.


5. How does Nigeria handle with the women?

150 years ago, the women were under the hand of the Islamic religion and they tried to life with the law of the islam. The women only teached themself and tried to help other women by passing on their knowledge to other female persons.
But today, everything changed and the woman in in Nigeria stand up for human rights and stop the oppression against them. There are a lot of associations which help these people by defending their rights.