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Amnesty International says laws enacted to prevent and protect people from rape are underutilised and not effective in Nigeria.
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Amnesty International says laws enacted to prevent and protect people from rape are underutilised and not effective in Nigeria.
Healthy-looking and lighter-skinned women and girls are at high risk of being kidnapped and sold as part of the sex slave trade in conflict-torn northern Cabo Delgado, according to a report.
An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has since 2018 kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today.
Forty-two years after the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the UN General Assembly, and 14 years since the Domestic Violence Act (Act 732) was passed by Ghana’s Parliament, GBV continues unabated and many women, girls, men and boys continually suffer.
The persistence of violence against women and girls in Africa is mainly associated with gender power relations.