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Nigeria: Workshop Participants Want Gender Studies Introduced in Schools
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Participants at the just concluded National Discussion on Women's Human Rights have called for the mainstreaming of gender issues into Nigeria's school curriculum.
In a communique issued yesterday at the end of the conference, the participants noted that such action would eliminate the age-long cultural practices that degrade women and narrow their chances of contributing to national development. They noted that exposure to gender issues would promote equality and equity, as well as guarantee a balanced society. The conference was organised by BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, an NGO, to advance awareness on the Convention of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
It was also meant to continue the advocacy as well as to generate more acceptability for the domestication of CEDAW.
Also known as the Bill for Women's Human Rights, CEDAW was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and became a law in 1981. Nigeria acceded to the document in 1985, but was yet to be domesticated 23 years after. The bill failed to sail through at the National Assembly in 2007.
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The participants blamed its non-passage by the National Assembly on misunderstanding and misconception of its objectives. They remarked that the non-passage had remained a major setback to the progressive development of gender issues in Nigeria.
Aboyowa 28 July, 2008
Women Should Aspire For Top Offices in Nigeria Women are the sunshine in our lives. Women give birth to us all, tend our wounds when we fall down or when we get hurt and nurture us to enable us become somebody in life. But why are women still being regarded as second- class citizens in Nigeria? Why are women not given equal rights and privileges like their male counter parts in Nigeria? Nigerian Population Census bureau in the year 2003 reports that women are almost 50% in the population of Nigeria yet occupy less than 5%... [Read Full Text]
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