The House of Representatives has passed the bill for an Act to prevent, prohibit and redress sexual harassment of students in tertiary educational institutions. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Hon.…
The General Manager of the Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs (LASODA), Mrs. Adenike Oyetunde-Lawal has advocated collective action in the fight against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, urging everyone to…
President Bola Tinubu has pledged to continue working towards ending gender-based violence and increasing learning opportunities for girls in safe and conducive environments. Speaking at the launch of the Organization…
.The need for effective policy reform, inclusion of a person with disability and accessible gender-based violence response and reporting facilities and services has been spotlighted. This was made known during…
By Oswald Agwu. The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in collaboration with the Ebonyi State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has graduated twenty survivors of gender-based violence in…
By Oswald Agwu, Ebonyi A Sexual Assault and Gender Based Violence support Centre has been launched in Ebonyi State. The centre known as Nduru GBV Centre was established by a…
By Oswald Agwu, Ebonyi The wife of Ebonyi State Governor, Mrs Mary-Maudline Uzoamaka Nwifuru has led over 100 institutions non-governmental and civil society Organizations in a mega rally against Gender-based…
By Oswald Agwu (INN), Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Government has pledged to incorporate economic empowerment of Gender-based violence survivors into its 2024 Budget. The State Commissioner for Budget and Planning,…
By Ene Oshaba OCI Foundation, an International Non-Governmental Organization, has said that the bill for an Act to establish preventive measures on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) into curriculum…
By Oswald Agwu The Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Faleye Olayele, has avowed the command’s commitment to steming the tides of gender – based violence and other forms of abuses…
By Oswald Agwu Ebonyi State judiciary has been called upon to urgently set up a Gender based violence Court as provided in the Violence Against Persons Prohibition law. The call…
The Women Rights Advancement and Protection Initiative, WRAPA, Nigeria have trained about 60 gender-desk officers on adequate response to Gender-Based Violence, GBV, cases. The trainees were selected from the 10…
By Adeola Akinbobola ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has said over 158,517 cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) against women and children formally received in 2021 is unacceptable and must be…
The International Human Rights Observatory (IHRO) Africa, says it is set to launch its Headquarters in Abuja to empower women and boost the campaign against Sexual and Gender-based violence against…
By Patrick Odey Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has called for concerted efforts by relevant stakeholders and authorities towards eliminating all forms of Gender-Based Violence against women and the…
