At least 260 women and children who were rescued from Boko Haram have been moved by the Nigerian military to an undisclosed location,...

…….Roseline Funmilayo, Legal Officer, Lawyers Alert Violence against women has always been known to be an ugly aspect of the average...

By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsorIBT April 14 2015 Sen. Aisha Al-Hassan (center), the All Progressives Congress candidate of Nigeria’s...

By Ben Simon . Lagos (AFP) – A typical day for Deborah includes classes on a manicured university campus and exercise in the evening —...

Culled from the Guardian Ten years after underage marriage was prohibited, 39% of girls are married before age 15, and two remain on...

Fact emerging from an investigative report conducted by Daily Trust 13 February 2015; with support of Ford Foundation reveals an...

By Mary Uneje The sun has gone down the city of Chipoka. Darkness is taking over the land and an uneasy calm hangs over the horizon....

Volunteer Lawyers across 23 states in Nigeria came together in Abuja between the 2nd to 6th of February 2015 to educate themselves on the...

Following the release of the names of all the Political Party Candidates cleared to run for the 2015 General Elections, Lawyers Alert’...

By Elvis-Wura Towolawi Take this as an unofficial allocotus, but we cannot turn a blind eye to a social sore that’s fast festering. A...

This article was posted on March 25, 2014 at indexoncensorship.org By Morgan Meaker This month, British charity Maslaha launched the...

By Alice Kanengoni, 22 May 2014 First published in Allafrica For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used the world over as...

“Soldiers are not what frightens Shekau and his gang, Boko Haram. What frightens them is a girl with a book” – Laurent Duvillier It’s...

On 15 April 2014, in a judgment which has been widely praised by equal rights activists around the world, the Supreme Court of India held...

The National Conference was inaugurated by the Nigeria Government to redefine and redeem Nigeria through seeking consensus ALL issues to...

by equalityedge There are many major gender based inequality issues in our societies that need addressing: on the one hand there is rape...

…….Elvis –Wura Towolawi. History and Time have not been fair to women. In many societies in the world, being born a girl-child, into the...

–  The Punch MORE than two centuries after the obnoxious trade in human beings was officially abolished in the British Empire in 1807,...

….. Anne G Bahá’í Scripture emphatically states that women will be the greatest factor in establishing universal peace and international...

By Jacqueline Rodríguez Vega The first time that I wrote something on international relations and international law, was about the...