The UK Mission to the WTO, UN and other international organisations in Geneva has issued a statement at Niger’s Universal Periodic Review on 5 May 2026. The statement praised Niger’s continued engagement with the UPR process and highlighted efforts to advance and protect the rights of women and girls, including access to essential health services and protection from gender‑based violence. It also noted steps to improve detention conditions and maintain a moratorium on the death penalty. The UK recommends that Niger strengthen laws for survivors of sexual violence, criminalise facilitators of child marriage, enshrine the abolition of the death penalty in law, and continue monitoring human rights through a National Observatory for Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties.
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