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Groups call for end to paedophilia, SGBV with advocacy walk
19 Dec  Issues
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) has decried the rising crime of pedophilia and sexual assault against children and minors.
Labour, legislators move to end rape, gender restrictions
27 Aug  Appointments
In efforts to nip in the bud cases of rape and other forms of gender-based violence, Women Commission of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), is partnering with Senator Oluremi Tinubu...
Group, DSVRT to stage a walk against rape
24 Jun 2020  Nigeria
The African Youths Initiative on Crime Prevention (AYCRIP) in partnership with the Coalition of Men against Rape and Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) has concluded plans to stage Surulere Walk Against Rape on Saturday, June 27 at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
Unpacking experience of men during the COVID-19 lockdown
23 Apr 2020  Health
The lockdown is putting into question many of the assumptions our society has made about traditional family roles, especially that of men. Traditionally, men have never really been the ones to stay confined...
COVID-19 fallout: Stakeholders bemoan rising SGBV, assault cases, unplanned pregnancies
11 Apr 2020  Gender
Just as Nigerians are trying to cope with the raging Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measure announced by the Federal Government to curtail the spread...
There is increase in sexual, domestic violence reports despite lockdown, says DSVRT
1 Apr 2020  Nigeria
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) has said it will leverage on technology to assist victims of sexual abuses and domestic violence during the period of the lockdown occasioned by the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
DSVRT hails 60-year jail term for convicted rapist, urges survivors to speak out
26 Oct 2019  Nigeria
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) has hailed the judgment given by Justice Sybil Nwaka in the case of the defilement of a two-year-old pupil of a Lagos-based private school.
LASG partners religious institutions in campaign against domestic, sexual violence
31 Aug 2019  WIMBIZ
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), has concluded a two-day workshop to strengthen the capacity of religious institutions in responding to domestic and sexual violence.
Support one another to end domestic violence, sexual abuse, NGO urges women
27 Apr 2019  Gender
Poor financial standing, fear of what will happen to the children and the unknown, unwillingness to send their husbands to jail, societal and religious...
DSVRT takes rape prevention campaign to Unilag, LASU
27 Apr 2019  Nigeria
In a bid to ensure continuous sensitization of students on sexual harassment and safety on campus, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team...
Giving children quality custody, upkeep and access after divorce
10 Mar 2019  Sunday Magazine
As divorce rate continues to rise, little attention is paid to the children, who are perhaps the most affected, as they are usually caught in-between parting parents.
More victims reporting domestic, sexual violence
17 Feb 2019  Sunday Magazine
A quarterly report of the Lagos Criminal Information System (LCIS) for the months of June to September 2018 disclosed that 56 miscellaneous cases...