The Bauchi State Police Command on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 tasked members of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) to redouble efforts in reporting all cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). The state Commissioner of Police, Musa Auwal, gave this charge at a one-day capacity building organised by …
Read More »A Caribbean Writer Fights Gender-Based Violence with Lit, Protests
by SWAN – Southern World Arts News (paris) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) – For the past six years, Jamaican writer and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has been one of the voices crying out against the prevalence of gender-based violence in the Caribbean and elsewhere. …
Read More »First Person: The Liberian police inspector working to end sexual and gender-based violence
“I am in charge of cases pertaining to women and children in Nimba county. The most prevalent cases I handle here are rape, persistent non-support (failure to pay alimony) and domestic violence. Rape is the most commonly reported of these cases. It is a very difficult issue to work on, …
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