Gender & SGBV
HumAngle’s Gender Desk tracks incidents of gender-based violence. It also reports policy gaps as they affect gender issues. It focuses on GBV issues in conflict areas, displacement camps, other large-scale conflict situations, and post-conflict circumstances (e.g. experiences of widows). It also looks at the issues of sex for food and rape as a weapon of war.
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Court Remands Lagos BRT Driver Arrested Over Bamise’s Murder
A magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has remanded Andrew Nice, driver of the BRT vehicle which Bamise Ayanwola,…
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Lagos State Publishes Names, Pictures Of Sex Offenders
To curb the high rate of rape cases in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, the government has started publishing details of…
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Gabon Among Top 10 African African Countries With Good Women’s Rights Laws
Gabon is among the top 10 African countries that have carried out reforms ensuring equality, according to the World Bank’s…
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Equality Bill: Nigeria’s Rough Road Amid Rise In Gender Based Violence
The exclusion of the equal rights Bill in the amendment of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution by the country’s lawmakers sparked…
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#IWD: Save The Children Tasks Government To End All Forms of GBV
Save the Children International has called on government at all levels (federal, state and local governments) to end all forms…
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Nigeria Struggling To Combat Gender-Based Violence, Despite Laws
Police in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, are still unravelling the circumstances around the death of 34-year-old Busayo Adewuni, a mother of…
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As Borno Domesticates Nigeria’s VAPP Act, What Does It Mean For Displaced Women?
For women like Falmata, reportedly raped first by terrorists while in abduction, and then allegedly by soldiers of the Nigerian…
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Gabon Records Over 2,000 SGBV-Related Emergency Calls In 9 Months
More than 2,000 emergency calls related to women in gender-based violence situations were recorded in nine months in Gabon since…
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Omar Bongo University Students To Support Victims Of Gender Based Violence In Gabon
A civil society outfit, Coordination Gabon-Egalite, is recruiting 24 masters degree students in law from the Omar Bongo University to…
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Despite Existing Law, Nigeria Has Third Highest Cases Of FGM – Report
With an estimated 19.9 million survivors, Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone…
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