VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Have you heard of the term violence against women before? Do you know what it means?

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, committed against women or girls specifically because they are female, and can take many forms.

VAW has a very long history, though the incidents and intensity of such violence have varied over time and even today vary between societies. Such violence is often seen as a mechanism for the subjugation of women, whether in society in general or in an interpersonal relationship. Such violence may arise from a sense of entitlement, superiority, misogyny or similar attitudes in the perpetrator or his violent nature, especially against women.

There are various kinds of violence meted out against women and they include;

- Gender based Violence, girl child sexual Violence, domestic violence

- Property and inheritance violation

-Female genital mutilation

- Rape

- sexual harassment

- Girl Child labour

- Reproductive rights violations such as prenatal sex selection, female infanticide, denial of rights to control fertility.

- Acid throwing

- Trafficking of women

- Financial abuse

- Elder abuse

- Dating violence and abuse

- Dowry violence

- Marriage by abduction

- Forced marriage

- Child marriage

- Limited Access to justice

- Limited political participation

- Harmful widowhood practices e.t.c

Nigeria is a signatory to so many international protocols and treaties, the foremost being the Universal Declaration of human rights 1948, and other gender specific treaties like the Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW), one would have hoped that with the enactment of the Violence against persons Prohibition Act ( VAPP) 2015 in Nigeria, that all the states would have domesticated it for the law to have a general effect but some states are still yet to domesticate this law thereby making perpetrators of violence against women and girls walk free.

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