The disheartening facts about Gender-based Violence within the Nigerian context means that about 30 million women and girls have experienced or are currently experiencing some form of violence on the basis of gender, as more than 1 in 3 women experience gender-based violence during their lifetime.
The United Nations Secretary-General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women initiative (UNiTE), calls for global action to increase awareness, galvanize advocacy efforts and share knowledge and innovations to end VAWG once and for all. Launched in 2008, UNiTE is a multi-year advocacy effort aimed at preventing and eliminating VAWG around the world. UNiTE calls on governments, development actors, civil society, women’s organizations, young people, the private sector, the media and the entire UN system to join forces in addressing the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.
The International civil society’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence’ is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Hear Her 2 Orange Africa is structured as a multi-year global partnership campaign powered by the ‘Orange3rybe Africa Project’ to engage, empower and enhance the work of civil society organizations, local, grassroots women’s rights organizations and individual citizens alike in the fight to eliminate Violence Against Women & Girls in Nigeria, through solutions to tackle causative factors for prevention and improved intervention systems for support and responsiveness.
Hear Her 2 Orange Africa seeks to deepen local and national action to increase awareness, galvanize advocacy efforts, share knowledge and enable innovations to end gender-based violence in Nigeria through multi-program, multi-industry and multi-stakeholder engagement.
