In commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism for the elimination of violence against women and girls, the Lagos State…
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In parliaments across Europe, acts of sexism, abuse and violence against women are widespread, A new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union…
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a UN refugee agency, says 20 per cent of refugee or internally displaced…
Going by the latest global estimates, nearly one-in-three women aged 15 and older have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate or…
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says it currently requires at least $12 million to provide the life-saving support for victims of…
Larise, though not real name, is an internally displaced person from Eastern Congo. During a visit by the United Nations…
A global human rights group, Amnesty International and four other international pro-people organisations are currently raising serious concern about how…
A lawyers’ group in Nigeria, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) is tackling the Federal Government and the Nigeria…
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anambra State chapter has kick-started a one week campaign in the state against rape and…
State Governments across Nigeria that are yet to domesticate the Child Rights Act 2003 and the Violence against Persons Prohibition…
Nigeria’s federal government launched its first national sexual offenders register on Monday – a database of those convicted for sexual…
Speaking calmly through tears, in a hearing streamed live on YouTube, former beauty queen Fatou Jallow told how Gambia’s ex-president…