by WARDC | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Why Nigeria must include parents in plans to protect girls from cervical cancer Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in Nigeria. There were 31,955 new cervical cancer cases in West Africa in 2018, and Nigeria accounted for almost half...
by WARDC | Feb 16, 2021 | Blog
Gender Equality,Peace and Securityin a COVID-19 World
by WARDC | Sep 25, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Publications
by WARDC | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, Violence Against Women, Women's Rights
The speaker of Bauchi house of Assembly while addressing the other speakers from the other northern states said that “as law makers, we ought to make policies in accordance to the law to ensure that we pass laws that support the truth of our people”. He...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) says it has commenced the implementation of the Spotlight Initiative Project in Lagos State to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. The EU-UN initiative was necessitated by the rising...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Violence Against Women
Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, the Executive Director, Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre, WARDC, speaks on the rise in rape cases. Rape has of late been on the rise. Do we have adequate deterrent for potential rapists? As we all know, rape is an...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Violence Against Women
If dressing is reason for rape, children shouldn’t be victims — Executive Director, women advocacy centre, Akiyode-Afolabi Published July 21, 2020 Executive Director, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, in this interview with...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Violence Against Women
Gender-Based Violence Abiola Akiode-Afolabi, who is the executive director of WARDC, said although there was high prevalence of gender-based violence before the COVID-19, the pandemic and its attendant lockdown aggravated it. “Tension has built up, there is a lot...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Women Empowerment, Women's Rights
A non governmental organisation, Women Advocates’ Research And Documentation Center (WARDC) has released a survey it commissioned which reveals that women were majorly sidelined by the Federal Government and many states across the country in decision making and...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Violence Against Women, Women & Coorruption, Women's Rights
Sequel to findings from a national survey on the Federal Government’s COVID-19 palliative, the Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre, WARDC, has expressed disappointment over President Muhammamadu Buhari’s anti-graft war. According to Dr. Abiola...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Women Empowerment
With the alarming rate of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the country and the need to further sensitise more people especially in the grassroots, Women’s Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) have trained 40 women to serve this purpose. The two day...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Violence Against Women
Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), has called for partnership between government, institutions, Civil Society Organisations and the community to end Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria. WARDC made this call yesterday during a...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Violence Against Women
In a bid to ensure gender justice in Nigeria as it relates to women and girls, the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has called for an end to all forms of gender-based violence and harmful practices, that has become the order of the day in...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Violence Against Women
Research has shown that one out of every three women has experienced some form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) or the other, which implies that one-third of the female population, has experienced a form of Gender-Based Violence which has become a global pandemic that...
by WARDC | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
To embark on peaceful protest, if demands are not metA group of concerned citizens representing diverse non-governmental organisations and working towards the advancement of women in Ogun State and Nigeria have given the Executive Governor of Ogun state, Dapo Abiodun...
by WARDC | Apr 28, 2020 | Blog, Legal Rights, Violence Against Women, Women's Rights
We, the undersigned organizations recognize that since the outbreak of the 2019 novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a major mitigation strategy employed by governments worldwide is the imposition of lockdown of economic and social activities in a bid to curtail the...
by WARDC | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog, Sexual & reproductive health, Violence Against Women
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by WARDC | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Women In Government, Women in Politics
A coalition of 150 women organizations under the aegis of More Women Campaign has called on the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to ensure 35 percent representation of women in his cabinet. The organization, an initiative of the Women Advocates Research and...
by WARDC | Aug 1, 2019 | Sexual & reproductive health, Violence Against Women
Gender activist, Prof Patricia Donli has described as disturbing the prevalence of gender-based violence such as sexual abuse and rape in most tertiary institutions as well as the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps. Prof Donli disclosed this at one-day training...
by WARDC | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Sexual & reproductive health
The Executive Director, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), Dr. Abiola Afolabi, has said the reduction at 547 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in Nigeria still remains unacceptably high. Speaking in Abuja at a roundtable discussion on...
