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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#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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Aid Organisation Suspends Worker Accused Of Raping Girl In Maiduguri
INTERSOS, a non-profit humanitarian organisation that supports victims of armed conflict in Northeast Nigeria, has suspended one of its employees…
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Police Are Conniving With Alleged Rapists To Frustrate Justice For Rape Victims
Susan Innocent* was merely 15 when she was allegedly raped by Pastor McDouglas Omosokpea of the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church…
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CAR Stops Posting Of Female Soldiers To Hinterland Over Alleged Sexual Assault
Newly recruited female soldiers of the Central African Republic army will no longer be posted to military operation zones in…
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One Death, Many Controversies: Intrigues Trailing Passing Of Premier Academy Student
The death of Keren-Happuch Akpegher, 14-year-old student of Premiere Academy, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has thrown up more controversies and a…
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