UN Rights Expert Urges Nigeria To End Unlawful Evictions.

 A UN human rights expert on Monday advised [press release] Nigerian officials to halt mass, unlawful evictions and demolitions in the region of Badia, Lagos, expressing concern over the homelessness resulting from a lack of adequate housing and compensation to victims. Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha [profile], an expert on the right to adequate housing, warned that upwards of 30,000 people are at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods if planned demolitions go on without intervention. "I am alarmed that ... children, women and elders have been pushed out of their homes without prior notice in the middle of the rainy season, with police sometimes resorting to violence to carry out the evictions," Farha said in her statement. 
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