.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…
Sexual And Gender Based Violence
Groups Empower GBV Survivors and PWDs in Grand Finale of 16 Days of Activism.
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…
16 Days of Activism: Ebonyi First Lady Advocates Greater Investment in GBV Prevention Strategies.
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…
Perpetrators of GBV Inhuman, I Won’t Spare them, Ebonyi CP Assures Taskforce
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…
Over 158,517 cases of SGBV received in 2021 unacceptable – ActionAid
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…
Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, Wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has called for a collective advocacy and action towards zero tolerance for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and harmful practices. Osinbajo made the…
Ending GBV/VAWG: WILFP Grooms Ebonyi Women’s Movement, CSOs on project Designing.
By Oswald Agwu The Women International League for Freedom and Peace, WILFP, has trained over 200 participants on project designing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation towards ending Violence Against Women and…
Group takes advocacy on VAPP, ACJ Laws implementation to Osun State government
A non-profit organisation in Osun State under the auspices of the Community Advancement Initiative for Self-Reliance has taken its advocacy for full implementation of Violence Against Persons Prohibition and Administration…