Women’s rights are part of the fundamental human rights that are recognized in international human rights treaties. While Nigeria has acceded to a number of international instruments on the promotion and protection of women’s rights, women in this country have yet to realize their rights. The Nigerian Constitution requires that international treaties be domesticated before...
Concerns over women’s marginalization and invisibility in Africa policy-making, remains a fervent international discourse. These concerns are likely due to restrictive laws, cultural diversities and practices, institutional barriers, as well as disproportionate access to quality education, healthcare, and resources. Reversing these discriminatory practices is not impossible, and can be achieved by implementing the right mechanisms...
The SAP document reafirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conict reconstruction. It stresses the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security. The Nasarawa state SAP document calls...
In Nigeria, there is no known prevalence of SRGBV at the primary school level except as found in the 2014 Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) by the National Population Commission (NPC) (UNICEF 2015), which showed a high prevalence (approximately 60 percent) of violence among adolescents before the age of 18, a finding corroborated by...
The peak of the pandemic coupled with the stay at home policy and lock down of businesses in Nigeria witnessed an astronomical rise in cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence especially against women and girls . The rise in cases of violence against women and girls is evidenced in various reported incidents of violence...
Gender-based Violence Overall, 11.9 percent of female respondents had ever experienced some form of sexual violence (Table 9). There was no significant difference between reported sexual violence by geographic location (data not shown). About 9.9 percent of females reported someone had tried to force them to have sex while 7.8 percent had actually been raped...
Online gender-based violence has been recognized as a challenge to achieve gender equality for women. In the past few decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have provided society with many new communication opportunities. For example, people can communicate in real-time with others in different countries using various technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),...
WVL-Nigeria Factsheet Year 1 The project seeks to support Local Women’s Rights Organizations (LWROs) and their movements in their efforts to eliminate discrimination and rights violations in policy and legislation and the provision of services, as well as harmful social beliefs and practices in Nigeria. Read More :
Widening insecurity in Nigeria in the face of covid-19, political economic analysis. Tensions arising from conflicts and insecurity are detrimental to the economy as well as the security well-being of a nation, as it poses a significant challenge to business operations and development in general. Read More : PEA on Widening Insecurity in Nigeria ...
The Nigerian State is no stranger to acts of terrorism. The fourth republic has witnessed outbursts of violence and direct attacks from organized groups such as the Boko Haram sect, MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) although only Boko Haram and IPOB were classified by the Nigerian...
