"Between hunger and the virus" : the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people living in poverty in Lagos, Nigeria / researched and written by Anietie Ewang and Jim Wormington.
"July 2021"--Table of contents page. Issued in cooperation with Justice & Empowerment Initiatives, Nigeria. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"This report, a collaborative effort between Human Rights Watch, an international human rights group, and Justice & Empowerment Initiatives (JEI), a Lagos-based nongovernmental organization, demonstrates that, by failing to fulfill the minimum requirements of the right to social security, Nigeria’s federal and Lagos state governments are denying urban poor communities their right to food and other elements of the right to an adequate standard of living. The report describes the devastating impact of the pandemic on communities’ livelihoods and access to food and then shows how, in the absence of an effective social security system, federal and state government responses struggled to fill the gap"--Summary.
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