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Sexual and Gender Based Violence

Centre for Social Justice seeks improved budget on gender issues

A NON-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has called for improved budget for gender-related issues in ministries,...

Local group uses home-grown solutions to tackle sexual abuse in Abuja communities

IN a bid to curtail the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence in rural communities in the country, a...
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Covid-19: Weak laws, poverty worsen gender-based violence in Bauchi during lockdown (PART 2)

The application of western and Islamic laws concurrently in Bauchi State has given room for suspected rapists and paedophiles to evade justice, aided by a seemingly overzealous governmental agency which the perpetrators always run to for cover.

COVID-19: Weak laws, poverty worsen gender-based violence in Bauchi during lockdown (PART 1)

MONDAY June 15 was a dark day for Habiba Auwalu (not real name) who hawks awara (a local cake produced from soya beans) at the Staff Quarters of the Federal Medical Centre Azare, in the North Eastern State of Bauchi. Habiba, 13, abandoned school for hawking in order to help...
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Making the best of the public anger on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Udo Jude ILO Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student of the University of Benin was brutally raped and murdered...

Name and Shame: Ekiti Govt releases profile of another convicted rapist

EKITI State Government has made public the details of  a convicted rapist in its 'Name and Shame' initiative to...
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