Grace Edema
A non-governmental group, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, has called for partnership from every sector in the country for an end to violence against women and girls.
Speaking on Thursday at a forum organised to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls, the Executive Director of WARDC, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, said issues of women’s human rights and developmental concerns were still major challenges.
The Year 2020 theme is, ‘Orange the world: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!’
She explained that the forum, which was supported by the joint EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, had a goal to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.
She said, “As we go from here, it is our hope that this meeting will yield a policy framework for effective multi-sector partnership. This year’s theme speaks to the necessity of having improved collaborations between various sectors to address gender-based violence.
“The forum today will be highlighting and exploring ways of improving partnership between multiple stakeholder to end violence against women and girls.”
Several personalities from different sectors were represented at the forum.
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