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Nigeria

Regional group:

African Group (AG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Council Bureau membership:	President (2008-2009)
Coordinator of regional group:	1 (2009, 2010-2011)
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2024) :

Other HRC positions:	Member of Consultative Group (2011-2012)
OHCHR presence:	Human Rights Adviser
NHRI accreditation status:	A

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet; High-level panel on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Human Rights Council; The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Situation of human rights in Eritrea; Human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises; Establishment of the Office of the President of the Human Rights Council; Trafficking in persons, especially women and children; Strengthening documentation within the Human Rights Council; Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2006, Nigeria has (in the absence of consensus): voted in favour of three item 4 resolutions on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic; voted against a number of item 4 resolutions on the situations in Belarus, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Sudan; and abstained during votes on item 4 resolutions on Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Nigeria voted in favour of a 2012 item 2 resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Nigeria has always voted in favour. On item 10 resolutions (capacity-building), Nigeria has joined consensus on all resolutions except for two that were voted on during the period of its membership: on cooperation with Ukraine (Nigeria abstained), and on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Nigeria voted in favour). For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Nigeria has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has nearly always voted in favour. Notwithstanding, Nigeria voted against a 2011 resolution on sexual orientation, and abstained during voting on defamation of religion, religious intolerance, religious discrimination, and ‘human rights, democracy and rule of law.’ For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Nigeria has either joined consensus on, or has voted in favour of, nearly all adopted texts.

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

324

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 98

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 46

106

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 61

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on toxic waste, 2015

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

ICESRC
22.08 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Received Sub-Committee visit

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2009, 2013, 2018)

Mid-term report

Level of delegation

Attorney General

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 60 / 192

2^nd cycle: 70 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2024)?

Nigeria

African Group (AG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 60 / 192

2^nd cycle: 70 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 0

Nigeria

African Group (AG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 60 / 192

2nd cycle: 70 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 0

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 60 / 192

2^nd cycle: 70 / 192