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...

Pre-colonial Africa prides itself on adherence to diverse cultural affinity and traditional belief systems, which defines the place of women in respect to land access, use and ownership. Land resources continue to play important roles in both agrarian and industrial societies; thus the absence of effective land management and gender construction in land allocations has...

Ekhator, Eghosa. (2020). Women and Access to Environmental Justice in Nigeria. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10.2139/ssrn.3719831. Read the full report below or download pdf

Following reports of increase in Sexual and Gender-Based (SGBV) cases during the period of Covid-19 lockdown in Nigeria between the months of March 2020 and July 2020, WINET carried out an online survey of one hundred and five persons (105) in August 2020 to determine the types of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) most prevalent...

Women in Nigeria face many challenges and discriminatory practices under some extant laws. This presentation focuses on some of these laws and their impacts on women in Nigeria. The Nigerian society is inherently patriarchal. This is due to the influence of the various religions and customs in many parts of Nigeria. Women are seen as...

Men are liars when they do not acknowledge that after spending all their lives trying (in weird and abusive ways sometimes) to protect their women from other men, that men aren't a collection of fears to women. It is unfair and insensitive to then belittle the fear from where the generalization comes from.

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),...

As a young girl growing up in the Northern part of Nigeria, I was bold among family and friends but shy to strangers. Life begun for me in secondary school when I joined the Red Cross Society and was trained as a Home Nurse. The experience was exciting, and I discovered I enjoyed being of help...

    We cry out against this inhumane ordeal that has befallen  us Some of Our men no longer defend and protect us from evil Rather they have the culprit themselves What crime have we committed against humanity to deserve such inhumane act? What crime have we committed for being Women and Girls? What crime...