Founding Director of WARDC, Dr. Abiola Afolabi-Akiyode
Civil Society Organisations and Women rights groups have been tasked to enhance their skills to monitor and assess Nigeria’s progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Benchmarks. This is as it relates to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Harmful Practices (HP).
At a One-Day Training on monitoring and assessment of Nigeria’s progress towards institutional SDGs benchmarks organised by Women Advocate Research and Documentation Centre, (WARDC) in partnership with the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, held in Lagos.
According to the founding director, WARDC, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi the goal is to strengthen CSOs in tackling all forms of discrimination, build capacity to demand accountability on VAWG/SGBV/HP/SRHR and push for reforms that would eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls. This will furt
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Womanifesto, NRHJN call for justice in sexual harassment case
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By Sola Ogundipe
The Feminist Womanifesto and the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria, NRHJN, have charged the Ogun state government to thoroughly investigate an alleged case of sexual harassment by Miss Barakat Melojuekun, against the state’s Commissioner of Environment, Mr. Saheed Abudu Balogun,
In separate open letters, the two organisations called for justice even as they acknowledged the intervention of the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, who has suspended the Commissioner and ordered the Police to probe the allegation.
In its own letter signed by the Executive Director of Women Advocate Research and Documentation Centre, WARDC, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, the Feminist Womanifesto – a collection of more than 500 women organisations and individuals working across Nigeria to attain gender justice and gender equality, threatened to initiate a case against the accused if appropriate action is