My Experience with Kabusa Market women
By Elvis Torkuma. Project Officer. We carried out need assessment in Kabusa a community within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja...
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Nov 26, 20193 min read
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
By Innocent Doris U ESQ This day was declared on December 17, 1999, by the United Nations (UN), 20 years ago, but the history of this...
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Oct 11, 20191 min read
Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable
In recent times, we have seen the girl child break the bounds and limits society placed on her in the past. Now, the girl child can dare...
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Jul 9, 20195 min read
WHEN THE ANOINTED GOT TOUCHED
By Devaan M. Mom Busola Dakolo’s decision to call her pastor out could not have been an easy one. She is after all, a successful...
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Apr 26, 20193 min read
SEXUAL RIGHTS VIOLATION IN NIGERIA
By Doris U. Innocent Esq Sexual rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human...
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Apr 9, 20192 min read
Celebration of Motherhood: The Human Rights Perspective
Sunday Adaji Esq On behalf of Lawyers Alert, we join other NGOs, CSOs and the entire womenfolk to say Happy Mother’s Day. March 31 of...
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Mar 25, 20193 min read
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT 2018: WAY FORWARD
By Ifeyinwa Onochie The National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC) has estimated that no fewer than 19 million Nigerians are living...
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Mar 13, 20193 min read
Divorce Your Wife, Lose Your Home to Her
by Kyenpya Katkuk Esq In the light of the recent event celebrating women on International Women’s day all over the world on the 8th of...
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Jan 17, 20195 min read
Love and Equity: The Stride towards ending Gender Based Violence
By Jerome Uneje Baba Junior, not again! “Must you always look for an excuse to hit me…tonight you will kill me o! Just because you think...
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Jan 17, 20194 min read
Effect Of Rape On Women/Girls
By Yua Miriam A taxi driver on his way to the motor park was attracted to a young lady who is a newspaper vendor. He decided to stop by...
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Nov 30, 20185 min read
One Day Strategic Planning Meeting On Reducing Human Trafficking In Benue State
Introduction On the 24th of September 2018, a case of human trafficking was reported to us at Lawyers Alert for legal advice and possible...
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Jun 26, 20183 min read
A ONE DAY SENSITIZATION WITH KABUSA MARKET WOMEN ASSOCIATION ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV)
Dated 12Th June 2018. The problem of gender-based violence (GBV) is an age-long problem in our communities which has led to loss of...
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Jun 1, 20182 min read
LAWYERS ALERT CONTINUES ITS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS ENGAGEMENT
In continuation of our project which seeks to reduce and eliminate violence against women and girls, Lawyers alert has added 5 states to...
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Mar 9, 20186 min read
Women and the Benue Killings
By Jerome Mary Uneje The sound of the whistle pierces through the quiet dark night in the neighbourhood of Ityo Gbenda, a suburb of...
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Jul 20, 20174 min read
WOMEN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ON THE PLATEAU: A RISING WARNING OCTAVE
By Jerome Uneje Bang! Bang!! Bang!!! Bot (not real name) keeps hitting on the door as he hollers her name in the still of the night....
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Nov 26, 20154 min read
TAX JUSTICE, PRESUMPTIONS AND THE BENUE WOMAN
By Jerome Uneje. It’s a hot Monday afternoon, sun is high up in the sky, temperature in the city of Makurdi is as high as the afternoon...
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Oct 25, 20154 min read
STILL ON CITIZEN LOIS IORVIHI AND GOVERNOR AL MAKURA
Governor Al Makura By Jerome Uneje Mary So much has been written and heard concerning this issue in both the social and mainstream media....
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Aug 27, 20154 min read
ABDUCTED AND RESCUED WOMEN: LAWYERS ALERT AND SCAIN PARTNER TO SEEK SOLUTION TO RESCUED WOMEN’S DILE
Nigerians were generally jubilant when news of the rescue of large groups of women abducted by Boko Haram broke. Prior to that many had...
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Jun 5, 20156 min read
DILEMMAS REGARDING THE PREGNANT VICTIMS OF THE BOKO HARAM ATROCITIES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: AN ISLA
Abridged paper developed by the Da’wah Institute of Nigeria (DIN) of the Islamic Education Trust (IET) Minna, and the Development...
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May 31, 20155 min read
From MDGs to SDGs: Indigenous African women as missing link
By Gwain Colbert It was President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia who said at the opening of the International Institute of Democracy...
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