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The National Commission for Women (NCW) was a Nigerian organization established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1989, [1] and charged with promoting the welfare of women in Nigeria. [2] The NCW was a predecessor of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Youth Development.
National Council of Women's Societies, also known by its acronym NCWS, is a Nigerian non-governmental and non-partisan women's organization composed of a network of independent women organizations in Nigeria binding together to use NCWS' platform to advocate gender welfare issues to the government and society.
Nigerian women. Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [1] [2] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development. It is also a way of reducing women's vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of ...
The Nigeria criminal system prohibits national and trans-national trafficking of women for commercial sex or forced labour. Nigeria is a signatory to the 2000 United Nations [ 46 ] Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children .
The NWCD was commissioned on 17 October 1997, and modelled on the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). It works in collaboration with Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development. [2] Between 1997 and 2003 the NCWD published a magazine, Images of the Nigerian ...
Women in Nigeria (WIN) is a political interest organization founded in 1982. The organization's interest concerns women's liberation, equality and social justice in Nigeria . [ 1 ] WIN is different from early women's groups in Nigeria because it affirms the belief that women's rights cannot be secured without addressing the broader issue of ...
She worked on the passage of 2003 Child Rights Act, [3] and during her tenure was a member of the opposition All Nigeria People's Party. [ 4 ] She was made a Member of the Order of the Niger awarded "for services to the nation"; she attended the 2014 National Conference as a delegate from Kano State.
MWAN is affiliated with the Nigerian Medical Association [2] and Medical Women's International Association (MWIA), [3] and operates in 34 of the country's 36 states. [4] 2019 president Joyce Barber [5] handed over, on Saturday, 14 September 2019 to Dr. Mininim I. Oseji, who then emerged as the 22nd National President of the Association. [6]