Niger

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as received**

To: IFEX Autolist (other news of interest)
From: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), [email protected]

Case NGA181102.VAW/ESCR

Violence against Women/Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights
Torture and ill treatment

The International Secretariat of OMCT has received information on the
following situation in Nigeria.

U N I T E D N A T I O N S
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

NIGER: Women discuss sustainable development

U N I T E D N A T I O N S
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

NIGER: Human rights defender sentenced to jail

CPJ deeply concerned about arrests of journalists

SOURCE: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York

**Updates IFEX alerts of 28 and 26 August 2002

U N I T E D N A T I O N S
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

GHANA-MALI-NIGER: International coalition launches safe-water project