2021
DOI: 10.23920/pjil.v5i1.313
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Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Nigeria’s Counterinsurgency Against Boko Haram: Problematising the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Abstract: The major objective of this Article is to examine the extent to which the accountability mechanism under international law is sensitive, and responsive to the challenges of accessing domestic remedies by victims of human rights violations in Nigeria’s counterinsurgency against Boko Haram. It explores the extent to which the current framework has enabled and facilitated efforts of victims in this wise especially those of poor, weak and defenceless victims. In this article, we make a case that the inability of i… Show more

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