The natural urge of a mother to protect her children and especially rescue her 8-year old son from extreme physical abuse has again sent Evelyn seeking help. She is going from pillar to post pleading for intervention before the worst happens to her or her son. The extent of her son’s physical and mental injuries is severely affecting Evelyn who has to leave her livelihood to see help for the custody of her children.
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The Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit making charitable organization for the promotion and enforcement of all human rights of women, the elimination of all forms of repugnant practices and violence against women, and the enhancement of their living standards.
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Women’s Rights Advancement & Protection Alternative WRAPA as part of the SOAWR members in the anglophone West Africa Cluster, joined BOABAB for Women’s Human Rights, Alliances for Africa, Initiative for Gender Equality and Development (IGED-Africa), Young Liberian Women Organisation for Improvement (WOFIM), to improve the knowledge on and contribute to increasing the pool of advocates pushing for the domestication of the Maputo Protocol for the actualisation of the rights of women in anglophone West Africa.
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The ‘Raising Her Voice Project’ (RHV) is a portfolio of projects in 17 countries across the world and focuses on improving governance and transparency by recognizing and increasing the significant contribution poor women can make to public life and in promoting their own rights. The project employs four approaches to reach its objectives: networking, lobbying and advocacy with poor women activists; working with public/traditional institutions and decision making forums; empowering and building capacity of CSOs.
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The Women’s Rights Advancements and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) Nigeria, established in 1999 is a non-governmental organization (NGO), non-political and non-profit making charitable rights based organization; for advocacy and mobilization for the promotion, protection and realization of women’s rights. It is a leading voice in the advocacy and campaign against Violence Against Women (VAW), focusing on prohibition and protection of survivors underscored by the demand for accountability by perpetrators. Survivors of sexual and gender based violence are extended direct support in the form legal aid and counselling as well as shelter in grave circumstances requiring short term relocation of a survivor pending resolution of the situation.
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The Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to assisting women in claiming their legal rights in all aspects of life. Since its inception in 1999, WRAPA has worked tirelessly to provide women across Nigeria with the mechanisms, tools, and interventions they need to better their lives both individually and collectively.
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More than 60 years after independence, Nigeria still struggles with building an inclusive society. Cries of political marginalisation, which predated independence, have yet to abate. The socioeconomic disparity in gender relations remains wide. The low level of inclusion is evident in the unequal power relations and exclusionary processes which have left limited spaces for marginalized groups to participate in the social, political and economic life of the nation.
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Gender parity and accountability form the nexus of key economic development conversations today. The effective inclusion, representation and empowerment of women is a country’s fastest track to sustaining the gains made in various sectors of governance and the economy. Nigeria is strengthening her efforts at achieving gender equality as a fundamental step towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality). Corruption, lack of accountability by public officials, and a lack of transparency have created substantial impediments to the successful delivery of public goods and services in Nigeria, with women as the primary beneficiaries.
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