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    THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS: A CASE STUDY OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA
    (DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, FACULTY OF LAW, NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, 2018-12-20) Wakil, Alhaji Garba
    The puipose of this thesis is to examine the growth of Boko Haram sect in Nigeria with the aim of suggesting a strategy for resolving the crisis. The thesis will focus on evolution and impact of the sect on the rights of children, human rights abuses, internal displacement, insecurity, threat to education and loss of livelihood in North Eastern Nigeria particularly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States. The thesis will explain that the government responses toward the Boko Haram phenomenon remain inadequate. This thesis will proffer recommendations on how the government would address the root causes of the crisis as well as vulnerability of children who become victims of the insurgency in the North Eastern part of Nigeria. The study therefore adopted a doctrinal method and findings were made which include attacks and abductions of children, violation of international humanitarian laws and rules, inability of children under Boko Haram controlled territory to access basic necessities of life and weak responses of Nigerian government in addressing Boko Haram insurgency and the Internally Displaced Persons (children).