Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Nigeria Update
Aside from the ongoing violence around Port Harcourt, several reports have emerged detailing the Nigerian mobile police unit's penchant for extrajudicial executions, as well as Obasanjo's recent anti-labor reforms.
Regarding both, the development of protest movements and specialized organizations in the human rights and labor sectors has helped limit,somewhat, the abuses by Nigerian criminal authorities and the central government. In spite of the mobilization of Nigerians, though, these abuses continue at an alarming rate, and attacks against Nigerians' labor rights (which in turn indicts foreign companies operating in Nigeria) and their civil liberties is far more telling a sign of Nigeria's development than the positive movements.
Regarding both, the development of protest movements and specialized organizations in the human rights and labor sectors has helped limit,somewhat, the abuses by Nigerian criminal authorities and the central government. In spite of the mobilization of Nigerians, though, these abuses continue at an alarming rate, and attacks against Nigerians' labor rights (which in turn indicts foreign companies operating in Nigeria) and their civil liberties is far more telling a sign of Nigeria's development than the positive movements.
