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 | 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 | 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 | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, Violence Against Women
Olusola Fabiyi, Olalekan Adetayo, Samson Folarin, Okechukwu Nnodim, Kayode Idowu and Justin Tyopuusu Forty-eight of the missing 94 pupils of the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, have come out of hiding. The Yobe State Commissioner for Education,...
