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Ruhi Khan, an ESRC Researcher at the LSE, and a journalist who was working with a leading broadcaster in India during the horrific Mumbai terror attacks in

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-GENDER advocates have tasked the governments at both the federal and state levels to give priority attention to sexual and gender based violence, regretting that lack of such was giving rise to the ugly situation in the country. They particularly called on the government to set up special courts for offences of gender and sexual violence just as it did to COVID-19. The advocates drawn from different civil society organisations and government sectors also attributed corruption to inability of the country to successfully tackle violence against women and girls. Contribut...

SGBV: FCT secures one conviction from 444 reported cases -Official "If we can push for the establishment of special courts that will preside over sexual and domestic violence cases, it will go a long way in dispensing justice to survivors." ADVERTISEMENT The desk officer of the response team for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), federal capital territory (FCT), Ngozi Ike, has disclosed out of 444 SGBV cases reported in the city, only one conviction has been secured. The official, who blamed the development on slow trials, advocated special courts for cases of sexual violence in the cou...