The number of missing persons in #Nigeria is rising. @ICRC's caseload of 23,000 missing people,mostly from the #BokoHaram conflict is the largest in any country. Gov't has failed to establish database 5yrs after announcing. #InternationalDayofDisappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/31/nigerias-rising-number-missing-persons

Many have gone missing while fleeing attacks by #BokoHaram or after abductions by the group, while others have disappeared after arrests by security forces and militias assisting in counter insurgency operations #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/31/nigerias-rising-number-missing-persons

In 2019, I met a 55year old women in #Maiduguri who told me she had not seen or heard from her two sons since soldiers took them away for “questioning” during a neighborhood raid in Sept 2012. #InternationalDayofDisappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/31/nigerias-rising-number-missing-persons

#Nigerian authorities should investigate the fate and whereabouts of thousands of victims of enforced disappearances and increase efforts to locate and return those in #BokoHaram custody. #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/31/nigerias-rising-number-missing-persons