FOREWORD
The State of Human Rights in Nigeria 2015 Report, produced by the National Human Rights Commission (Commission), is the 5th in the series of this comprehensive publication since its maiden issue in 2001. Every year that the report is published certain aspects are improved on from prior years.
In the 2015 report the Commission refined the streamlined format developed in the 2011-2012 report in order to place more emphasis on the Commission’s recommendations on how to improve the protection of human rights and thematic areas of concern. In so doing, this report is far more than a record of what occurred during the year under review, but also a proscriptive document providing a torchlight on the way forward.
