Kafilat Ogbara, chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development, has called for National support for a bill proposing 182 new legislative seats dedicated solely to women. Kafilat, who represents Kosofe Federal Constituency, Lagos State,…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice has declared Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) a form of torture and ordered the Government of Sierra Leone to enact legislation explicitly criminalising the practice promptly The court found Sierra…
Thousands of Chinese men are sharing intimate photos and videos of women without their consent via Telegram, a messaging app banned in China but still accessible through VPNs. The “MaskPark Treehole Forum,” a large Telegram group, hosted and circulated obscene…
Today is July 30, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, and Nigerian women and girls are still being trafficked across West Africa and Europe for prostitution. This mostly happens through routes everyone knows, by people who are not hiding, with…