Recent Issues in Human Rights and Injurious Moral and Religious Values in African Societies: The Nigerian Experience

No doubt, human right in contemporary world has developed far beyond the original perception of the founding fathers of the concept after the Second World War. Such areas include right of women and children including scientific
and social issues like homosexuality, female circumcision otherwise referred to as Female Genital Mutilation Genetic Engineering, In Vitro Fertilization and Blood Transfusion. These issues raise a lot of religious, moral and cultural value questions in Nigeria and several African Countries that could drive a huge wedge in the path of effective administration of human right laws in Nigeria. Using the issue of where to draw a line between law, morality and religion and how far law may be employed towards enforcement of certain moral and religious tenets, this paper explored the possibility of importing the concept of Bioethics into administration of the law on human rights to give human right outfit such human face that could enhance its impact in the grossly cultural Nigerian communities.