The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has called on human rights defenders in the country to pay attention to the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of citizens, adding that despite Nigeria's perceived commitment to human rights principles, a significant number of human rights violations still occur in the country today.
NBA's Human Rights Institute (NBA-HRI) in a statement to mark the Human Rights Day, which is a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), coming up during the week, said that "the Institute (NBA-HRI) has made public submissions locally and on the regional level to the African Commission on Human and People's Rights concerning issues such as the use of torture rather than forensic policing as a primary method of investigation and the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in prisons and other places of detention".
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