by wardc1 | May 11, 2016 | Violence Against Women
Gender and Equal Opportunity (GEO) Bill is a direct response to the concerns on the delays in the domestication of gender focused international treaties/conventions particularly CEDAW and the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. It incorporates...
by wardc1 | Dec 4, 2015 | Violence Against Women
First Case of Violence Against Women at ECOWAS Community Court Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre (WARDC); & the Institute for Human Rights & Development in Africa (IHRDA) have sued the Nigerian government at the ECOWAS Community Court of...
by wardc1 | Nov 30, 2015 | Violence Against Women
‘I am a survivor of VAW! I chose not to allow my abusive husband ruin my life.’ I am a young woman, a graduate of a highly reputable Nigerian University, legally married to my very educated husband since 2003, our union produced 3 children. While living together as...
by wardc1 | Oct 23, 2015 | Violence Against Women
The Joint Statement by International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria and the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) on Human Rights Situation of Women and Girls in Nigeria Presented at the 56th Ordinary Session of the African Commission...
by wardc1 | Oct 23, 2015 | Violence Against Women
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, has urged victims of sexual and gender-based violence to report acts of violence, saying the report will be treated with confidentiality. It added that it had concluded training for 190 officials of the state...
by wardc1 | Oct 23, 2015 | Violence Against Women
For how long would innocent women continue to suffer from callous husbands, for how long would cruel husbands continue to send innocent women to early graves? Are we going to watch men who have no regard for womanhood to torture, disrespect and murder women? Women! it...
