Child marriage

An NGO, Focusing on Women and Girls Initiative for Positive Change (FOWGI for positive change), has called for the implementation of laws that will protect and promote adolescent girls’ rights to end child marriage. Mrs Rifaku…

The Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA) has charged all male residents in the state to support the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).  Mrs Oluyemi Kalesanwo, the Permanent Secretary of WAPA, made…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with a non-governmental organization, Value Female Network (VFN) and Osun State Ministry of Women, Children & Social Affairs, has sensitized children in Osun state to the…

The United Nations has condemned the practise of child marriage in Zimbabwe following the death of a 14-year-old girl after she gave birth at a church shrine, an incident that caused outrage among citizens and rights activists. The case…