SEXUAL HARASSMENT
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Featured
Sexual harassment: FG to establish mobile courts to prosecute offenders
The Federal Government is to establish mobile courts to attend to issues relating to sexual harassment. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye made this known at a one-day National Stakeholder’s Engagement on Sexual Harassment Prevention on Tuesday in Abuja. The event was organized by the ICPC in collaboration with the Gender Mobile Initiative. She decried the high rate…
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Health
Patients grapple with sexual harassment in hospitals over ignorance, unethical practices
AMARACHI OKEH writes about the low level of awareness of the rights of patients and how this puts females at risk of sexual harassment Lola froze with shock on the examination bed in the consultation room when a male doctor who was examining her said, “See what you have done to me; you have made me ‘hard.’” Not convinced that…
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Defence
Army detains female soldier’s son after PUNCH interview
Emmanuel Brown, the 23-year-old son of female soldier Philomena Nnamoko, attached to Ilese Sappers Barracks, Division 2, Ogun State, has been allegedly detained by the Nigerian Army. Our correspondent gathered that Brown was locked up in a guardroom by a female lieutenant colonel in the army for granting an interview to The Punch shortly after his mother was sent to…
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NEWS
COVID-19: CLO decries rising child abuse, sexual harassment
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has decried the increasing rate of child maltreatment, abuse and sexual harassment, especially in this period of school closure due to COVID-19 lockdown. The Chairman of organisation in Anambra, Mr Vincent Ezekwueme, raised the concern in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) in Enugu on Saturday. Ezekwueme spoke on the sidelines of…
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