Tag: Gender-Based Violence

NUJ FCT Chairman urges united action to end Gender-Based, Digital Violence against women

Lukman Laleye Babalola

The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Council, Comrade Grace Ike, has called for decisive collective action to end gender-based violence, including the growing threat of digital abuse, as the world observe the 2025 edition of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.   Ike, the first female chairman in the NUJ FCT Council’s 43-year history, drew on her personal experience of harassment during the 2024 NUJ FCT election to highlight the urgent need for societal and institutional intervention. She emphasized that online abuse should be…

Deputy Speaker, Kalu decries neglect of Girl Child Education, Gender Based Violence

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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has expressed concern over the rising number of uneducated girl-child and incidence of Sexual Gender-Based Violence against girls in Nigeria.   Kalu expressed the concerns on Thursday when he received a delegation from the Female Student Vanguard for Girl Child Education in Nigeria from Kano State who paid him a courtesy visit his office at the National Assembly complex Abuja.   He observed that the issues if not tackled will have negative consequences on the child’s physical,…

Senate approves Human Rights Fund to tackle sexual, Gender-based violence, others

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The Senate, on Tuesday, passed a bill to reposition the National Human Rights Commission by establishing the National Human Rights Fund in Nigeria’s annual budget.   The Fund when established, would be used particularly for interventions on sexual and gender-based violence and other unforeseen human rights violations in the country.   The Bill tagged: “The National Human Rights Commission Act (Repeal and Enactment) Bill, 2021 (SB.587)”, was read for the first time on 2nd December, 2020.   It seek to repeal and enact the National Human Rights Commission Act 2010…

FACADO calls for more actions against rape, gender based violence

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The Fatherless and Motherless Children Aid Organization(FACADO) has called on relevant government agencies,and stakeholders to join hands for more actions to fight against incessant rape cases and gender based violence in Nigeria. The Founder and Director of FACADO orphanage home, Amb. Ngozi-Anih Grace George,made this call at a press conference organized by the organization in New-karu, Karu,Nasarawa state,on Thursday 9th July 2020. George who described rape as a global pandemic, reiterated her organization commitment towards campaigns against rape, incest and gender based violence in Nigeria. Read the statement in full:…

Rape,other sexual offences, A global menace says IGP …As Police, NAPTIP, NHRC Unite Against Rape and Gender-Based Violence In Nigeria

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has called for improved partnership, strategy and joint operations by the Police and other relevant stakeholders to stage a common front against rape, child molestation, trafficking in person and other sexual-based violence in the country. The IGP stated this, today, 11th June, 2020 at the Force Headquarters, Abuja during a tripartite meeting held between the Police Chief and the Heads of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) – Dame Julie Okah…