NIGERIA and some other African countries have been indicted in the 2010 Amnesty International’s report on the state of human rights all over the world, thus making the countries the world’s worst clime for human rights offences, ranging from forced eviction of people from their homes, domestic violence against women, to sexual abuse and other acts of callousness against human persons.
The report, which covers the period between January and December 2009, further stated that a gap in global justice was being worsened by what it termed “power politics,” noting that repression and injustice were increasing in the global justice, therefore, leading to the condemnation of millions of people to abuse, oppression and poverty.
In an electronic press statement, the interim Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Claudio Cordone, said there was also a sharp rise in human rights abuses all over the world, claiming that racism, xenophobia and intolerance in Europe and Central Asia, as well as governmental intolerance in some Middle Eastern countries, had further confirmed the rising wave of rights abuse globally.
The report said that Amnesty International’s research had revealed that torture and ill-treatment took place in about 111 countries.