A Jigawa State High Court has sentenced a rapist, Abubakar Muhd, popularly known as Akuya, to death by hanging and ordered ...

Lift Africa Foundation, a non-profit organisation working to advance justice, has called for urgent action to protect women and girls from digital violence, rising insecurity in schools, and the ...

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Niger State Branch, has called on the Niger State Police Command to fully enforce the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act as part of ...

The decision by the National Assembly to repeal the Violence Against Persons Prohibition ACT (VAPP) and the effect it will have on the survivors and society, has brought Civil Society Organisations, ...

It urged the Nigerian government to explicitly prohibit the practice in national health policies and strengthen the enforcement of existing laws Plan International Nigeria, an independent humanitarian ...

The Kano State Ministry of Women Affairs, Children, and Disabled has pledged its continued support for the effective implementation of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law in the state.

Sir: The need for stringent laws and a better support system for survivors have always dominated the conversation about the rampant sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Nigeria. In 2015, Nigeria ...

On July 15, 2024, The Gambia’s National Assembly decisively rejected a Bill that sought to repeal the 2015 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of maintaining ...

A suspected case of rare paralytic polio in a child in Meghalaya caused by vaccine-derived virus is a fresh reminder that India has eradicated only wild poliovirus and the risk of paralytic polio ...

Taliban halts polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, UN warns of global setback. (Representational image: IE) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday granted the pre-qualification (PQ) ...