NIGERIA

Follow-Up

State Reporting - Action by Treaty Bodies, Including Reports on Missions

CESCR E/C.12/1998/12

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Follow-up to the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 15 July 1998)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria	E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).	Urgently

CESCR E/C.12/1999/3

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Follow-up to the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 15 July 1998)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria	E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).	Urgently

CESCR E/C.12/1999/8

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Follow-up to the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 15 July 1999)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria	E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).	Urgently

CESCR E/C.12/2000/3

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Follow-up to the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 31 January 2000)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria	E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).

Urgently

CESCR E/C.12/2001/3

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Follow-up to the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 1 January 2001)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria

E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).

Urgently
"The Committee recommends that more positive and open dialogue between the Committee and the Nigerian Government can be undertaken, and maintained. This dialogue need not await the passage of the next five years. The Committee calls upon the Government to submit a comprehensive second periodic report, prepared in conformity with the Committee's guidelines, by 1 January 2000." (concluding observations, para. 43.)

1 January 2000

The Chairperson of the Committee, in her letter, dated 27 November 2000 and addressed to the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, informed the State party that at its twenty-fourth session (13 November-
1 December 2000) the Committee, under its follow-up procedure, considered the status of implementation of its previously adopted concluding observations and, with respect to Nigeria, found that as of this date the State party had not submitted its second periodic report called for in paragraph 43 of its concluding observations (May 1998). Accordingly, the Committee decided to request the State party to submit its second periodic report as soon as possible but not	1 November 2001
later than 1 November 2001. At the same time the Committee indicated that "If the Government of Nigeria is experiencing difficulties in the preparation of its second periodic report, it may avail itself of the advisory services and technical assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of States parties' reports to be submitted under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights."

CESCR E/2001/22

Chapter V

Follow-up to the Committee's consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

572. At its twenty-fourth session, held 13 November to 1 December 2000, the Committee, under agenda item 4 (Follow-up to the Committee's consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant), considered the status of implementation by the States parties of the recommendations contained in its concluding observations adopted with respect to the initial reports submitted by Nigeria (E/1990/5/Add.31) ... which were considered by the Committee at its eighteenth21 ... sessions in 1998. In connection with consideration of this agenda item the Committee had before it a note by the secretariat (E/C.12/2000/3) and a number of submissions from non-governmental organizations.

Nigeria

573. The Committee recalled that, in its concluding observations, it recommended:

[...] that more positive and open dialogue between the Committee and the Government of Nigeria be undertaken and maintained. The Government need not wait until its next report is due in five years' time; the Committee calls upon the Government to submit a comprehensive second periodic report, prepared in conformity with the Committee's guidelines, by 1 January 2000.

574. The Chairperson of the Committee, in her letter dated 27 November 2000 and addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria through the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva (see annex IX below), informed the State party that the Committee, under its follow-up procedure, considered the status of implementation of its previously adopted concluding observations and, with respect to Nigeria, found that as of this date the State party had not submitted its second periodic report called for in its concluding observations.23

575. Accordingly, the Committee decided to request the State party to submit its second periodic report as soon as possible but not later than 1 November 2001. At the same time the Committee indicated that, "If the Government of Nigeria is experiencing difficulties in the preparation of its second periodic report, it may avail itself of the advisory services and technical assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of States parties' reports to be submitted under the Covenant."

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21 For the concluding observations of Nigeria, see Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/22-E/C.12/1998/26), chap. IV, paras. 96-138.

23 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/22-
E/C.12/1998/26), chap. IV, para. 137.

Annex IX

Letter dated 27 November 2000 from the Chairperson of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nigeria through the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations and Other International Organizations In Geneva

On behalf of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights I wish to draw your attention to the concluding observations adopted by the Committee at its eighteenth session (27April-15 May 1998)a with respect to Nigeria's initial report. Your particular attention is drawn to paragraph 137 of these concluding observations which reads as follows: "The Committee recommends that a more positive and open dialogue between the Committee and the Nigerian Government can be undertaken, and maintained. The Government need not wait until its next report is due in five years' time; the Committee calls upon the Government to submit a comprehensive second periodic report, prepared in conformity with the Committee's guidelines, by 1 January 2000".

At its twenty-fourth session (13 November to 1 December 2000), the Committee, under its follow-up procedure, considered the status of implementation of its previously adopted recommendations and, with respect to Nigeria, found that as of this date the State party had not submitted its second periodic report called for in paragraph 137 of its concluding observations referred to above.

If the Government of Nigeria is experiencing difficulties in the preparation of its second periodic report, it may avail itself of the advisory services and technical assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of States parties' reports to be submitted under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The Committee has decided to request the State party to submit its second periodic report as soon as possible but not later than 1 November 2001.

A copy of the relevant concluding observations is attached for ease of reference.

Chairperson

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

(Signed) Virginia Bonoan-Dandan

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a See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/22-E/C.12/1998/26), chap. IV, paras. 96-138.

CESCR E/C.12/2002/3

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Follow-up to the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 1 January 2002)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria	E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).

"The Committee recommends that more positive and open dialogue between the Committee and the Nigerian Government can be undertaken, and maintained. This dialogue need not await the passage of the next five years. The Committee calls upon the Government to submit a comprehensive second periodic report, prepared in conformity with the Committee's guidelines, by 1 January 2000." (Concluding observations, para. 43.)	Urgently

1 January 2000

The Chairperson of the Committee, in her letter, dated 27 November 2000 and addressed to the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, informed the State party that at its twenty-fourth session (13 November-
1 December 2000) the Committee, under its follow-up procedure, considered the status of implementation of its previously adopted concluding observations and, with respect to Nigeria, found that as of this date the State party had not submitted its second periodic report called for in paragraph 43 of its concluding observations (May 1998). Accordingly, the Committee decided to request the State party to submit its second periodic report as soon as possible but not later than 1 November 2001. At the same time the Committee indicated that "If the Government of Nigeria is experiencing difficulties in the preparation of its second periodic report, it may avail itself of the advisory services and technical assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of States parties' reports to be submitted under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights."

1 November 2001

CESCR E/C.12/2003/3 (2003)

FOLLOW-UP TO THE CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS UNDER ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 1 January 2003)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding observations	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
Nigeria	E/C.12/1/Add.23 May 1998	The Committee urges in the strongest terms that union leaders and their rank and file members, including in particular those named in paragraph 17 above, who have been imprisoned without being charged or tried, be freed immediately (concluding observations, para. 37).	Urgently

"The Committee recommends that more positive and open dialogue between the Committee and the Nigerian Government can be undertaken, and maintained. This dialogue need not await the passage of the next five years. The Committee calls upon the Government to submit a comprehensive second periodic report, prepared in conformity with the Committee's guidelines, by 1 January 2000." (Concluding observations, para. 43.).	1 January 2000
The Chairperson of the Committee, in her letter dated 27 November 2000 and addressed to the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, informed the State party that at its twenty-fourth session (13 November-1 December 2000) the Committee, under its follow-
up procedure, considered the status of implementation of its previously adopted concluding observations and, with respect to Nigeria, found that as of this date the State party had not submitted its second periodic report called for in paragraph 43 of its concluding observations (May 1998). Accordingly, the Committee decided to request the State party to submit its second periodic report as soon as possible but not later than 1 November 2001. At the same time the Committee indicated that "If the Government of Nigeria is experiencing difficulties in the preparation of its second periodic report, it may avail itself of the advisory services and technical assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of States parties' reports to be submitted under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights".

1 November 2001

CESCR, E/C.12/2007/2 (2007)

SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT

Recommendations for follow-up information or exchanges, made within the context of the consideration of reports under articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant

Annex

FOLLOW-UP BY STATES PARTIES TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (status as at 1 September 2007)

State party	Report/summary records/concluding

obser v a t i o n s	Follow-up measures requested	Deadline	Action taken
...
Nigeria
E/C.12/1/Add.23

May 1998

Letter of the Chairperson of the Comité dated 27 November 2000	"The Committee recommends that more positive and open dialogue between the Committee and the Nigerian Government can be undertaken, and maintained. This dialogue need not await the passage of the next five years. The Committee calls upon the Government to submit a comprehensive second periodic report, prepared in conformity with the Committee's guidelines, by 1 January 2000." (Concluding observations, para. 43.)

The Chairperson of the Committee, in her letter dated

27 November 2000 and addressed to the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, informed the State party that at its twenty-fourth session (13 November-1 December 2000) the Committee, under its follow-up procedure, considered the status of implementation of its previously adopted concluding observations and, with respect to Nigeria, found that as of this date the State party had not submitted its second periodic report called for in

paragraph 43 of its concluding observations (May 1998). Accordingly, the Committee decided to request the State party to submit its second periodic report as soon as possible but not later than 1 November 2001. At the same time the Committee indicated that "If the Government of Nigeria is experiencing difficulties in the preparation of its second periodic report, it may avail itself of the advisory services and technical assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of States parties' reports to be submitted under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights".	1 January 2000

1 November 2001

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