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Corporate Social Responsibility (IVOR nr. 77) 2010/9.2.3
9.2.3 Human rights obligations: Nigeria
Mr. T.E. Lambooy, datum 17-11-2010
- Datum
17-11-2010
- Auteur
Mr. T.E. Lambooy
- JCDI
JCDI:ADS363408:1
- Vakgebied(en)
Ondernemingsrecht (V)
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As of March 2008, however, Nigeria had not signed the first Optional Protocol (1966) to the ICCPR, under which individuals - who claim that their rights under the ICCPR have been violated, and who have exhausted all domestic remedies - can submit written communications to the UN Human Rights Committee.
See: M. Shaw, International Law (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge: 2003), pp. 363-365.
Independence Constitution (1960), Republican Constitution (1963), Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1979), Chap. V, and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999), Chap. IV.
See Okonta and Douglas, supra note 2, p. 212.
Nigeria is a party to the most important international human rights conventions and protocols: it has signed the UN Charter thereby accepting the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (1948) and it has accessed the ICCPR
and the ICESCR - all in 1993.1Nigeria is also a party to the ACHPR.2
Furthermore, since the independence of Nigeria, the most important human rights have been included in its Constitution.3 Chapter IV, Section 33(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) guarantees the right to life of all Nigerians. According to Chapter II, Section 20, "the State shall protect and improve the environment and safeguard the water, air and land, forest and wild life of Nigeria".4 Thus, the Nigerian Government is committed (i) to protecting these human rights of the Nigerian people and (ii) to guaranteeing that the Nigerian people, including legal entities, comply with these human rights. The latter could be regarded as ensuring a horizontal application of human rights.