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The Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI) says the spate of insecurity is increasing the risk of sexual violence and exploitation on women and girls across the country.

Stakeholders have called for nationwide free breast cancer screening to reduce rising cases, health complications and deaths associated with the disease.

No fewer than about 3,565 smallholder farmers, about 165 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and five lead farmers in Niger State have received the sum of

Volker Hauck is the Head of the Conflict, Security and Resilience Programme at ECDPM. His experience and publications are on Capacity Development with a focus on Conflict Prevention ..

India and Bangladesh share 54 transboundary rivers and earlier these rivers greatly supported the livelihoods of millions of riverine communities

The 36 State Governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) unanimously resolved to design and operationalise an action

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Thursday expressed concern over the state of insecurity in the nation. The governors, in a communiqué signed by the

Haiti: UN agencies warn of ‘unabated’ rise in hunger

While humanitarian assistance has been successful in averting a catastrophe, Haiti is experiencing a persistent rise in hunger levels, with many citizens s

Officials, civil society representatives and other practitioners gathered for the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation ahead of the Sixty-Sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) agreed that women and girls need to be better represented in all aspects of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy and programme processes, from the leadership and decision-making spaces, data collection and analysis, to policy formulation, programme design, and all th...