The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), in collaboration with Ford Foundation, has sensitised women leaders across the Lagos State on eradicating sexual violence in their communities. The group, a women’s rights organisation in Nigeria, which provides pro bono legal services for women victims of gender-based violence and other women’s rights abuse, said the…

“I didn’t know what I was going to do in Mali, I didn’t know that I had been trafficked. I thought I would get a job on arrival there, but I had a horrible experience,” said Oyinlola Aaron, a returnee from Mali.

In its bid to end Violence Against Women and Girls, through the European Union, EU, Spotlight Initiative project, coalitions, networks of women groups, and civil society partners of the Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre (WARDC) have commended the EU.

To reintegrate female migrants and returnees to society, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) with the support from German Development Agency (GIZ) through its Inspire, Empower and Reintegrate Women Project has empowered 100 returnees with different skills.

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) has lamented that schools and learning facilities across the country still suffer from pervasive insecurity due absence of adequate responses by the governments.

With women winning only 75 legislative seats out of the 1,459 seats up for grabs at the state and national levels in the 2023 general election, a coalition of women groups has decried the violence that induced the low turnout of voters recorded in the polls.