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Child Rights Group Partners Delta Govt. on Checking Abuse
By Oghenero Eghweree The Delta State Child’s Rights Implementation Committee says the body will partner with the state government and relevant stakeholders towards achieving its mandate of promoting the enforcement of laws aimed at protecting children and adolescents from violence and abuse. This was part of resolutions reached in Asaba, the state capital follow a…
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If we don’t deal with sexual violence and child marriage, they will deal with us – CSOs
Funmi Adekoya in this piece examines sexual and gender-based violence and Child Early and Forced Marriage as social menace that require concerted efforts to checkmate Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, SGBV, is any harmful act perpetrated against a person’s will, and that is based on socially ascribed differences between male and female. These include rape, domestic…
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Ditch Violence for Issue-Based Campaign
On the 28th, of last month, the gong of electioneering was struck across the nation as stipulated by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The commission had said the campaign for presidential and national assembly elections should commence that day while that of governorship and state houses of the assembly was to begin on October…
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Oyo LG Polls Pics: Violence Erupts in Eruwa
Kehinde Mosope / Yemis Dada
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Cleric Advocates for Peace Among Nigerians
The presiding Bishop, Victory International Church, Rehoboth Cathedral, Ibadan bishop Taiwo Adelakun has appealed to Nigerians to shun the acts of violence presently being experienced in some parts of the country to allow peace to reign. Bishop adelakun who made the appeal in an interview with Radio Nigeria said it was unfortunate that the peaceful…
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Group Urges Federal Government to Ratify ILO Convention on Violence, Harassment
A group, the International Lawyers Assisting Workers network, ILAW (Nigeria), has called on Federal Government to speedily ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on violence and harassment in the workplace. ILAW, which made the call in a press release, said the country would make its mark in history by promptly ratifying ILO Convention No.…