Chart of the Day

#ChartoftheDay: Top 10 States with the Highest Number of Human Rights Complaints

By Khadijat Kareem

February 18, 2022

Complaints of violations to the National Human Rights Commission included sexual and gender-based violence, women and gender rights, child rights, right of the aged, judiciary rule of law and access to justice, freedom/liberty of persons, right to life, freedom of religion, law enforcement, and human dignity, quality of rights, labor rights, freedom from discrimination, Niger Delta and environments and others.

Delta state comes first with the highest number of complaints received by the national human rights commission. 

The commission received a total of 1,128,760 complaints in 2020 across the 36 states including FCT where the headquarters of the commission is located.