Geneva - The United Nations Human Rights Council has received a request to host a special session next week on abuses by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria and neighbouring countries, the council president said on Friday.
The UN's top rights body received the request late on Thursday from Algeria, on behalf of the group of African countries, president Joachim Ruecker told the council.
If officially accepted by at least one third of the council's 47 members, the session will go ahead on 1 April.