SERAP Urges UN To Act On Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to urgently act on Nigeria’s escalating insecurity crisis, warning that it threatens regional and international peace. In an open letter dated May 30, 2026, signed by SERAP’s deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the group urged Guterres to invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter and formally bring Nigeria’s worsening situation—marked by mass abductions, killings, attacks on civilians, displacement, and other grave human rights violations—to the attention of the UN Security Council. SERAP asked the UN chief to encourage regular and public Security Council briefings on insecurity, abductions, and humanitarian consequences in Nigeria, and to request systematic reporting by relevant UN bodies on attacks, displacement, and their wider impact on civilians. The organisation also urged him to publicly call on Nigerian authorities to uphold their human rights […]