As Nigeria joins the remainder of the world to commemorate the Day of Zero Tolerance for the Observe of Feminine Genital Mutilation (FGM), the Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) reminds residents, healthcare staff and different duty-bearers of the necessity to strengthen their collaborations to finish FGM in Nigeria.
The manager secretary of the fee, Dr. Tony Ojukwu, SAN, who made this assertion in Abuja famous that the fee has at all times been on the forefront of eradicating the painful, unhealthy, dangerous and degrading apply of FGM proper from time.
The realized Silk noticed that NHRC in collaboration with the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA) and Civil Useful resource Growth and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC) had in 2017 produced a coaching guide on human rights and different associated problems with FGM in Nigeria to stem the tide of this human rights violation in varied communities throughout the federation.
“The Guide offers a common background evaluation of girls’s human rights and Feminine Genital Mutilation, which is a sort of violence towards girls and ladies. The Guide additionally offers a information for reporting FGM according to the prescribed customary”, the Chief Human Rights Officer of Nigeria added.
In the identical vein, the NHRC boss disclosed that with the help of UNFPA/UNICEF, the fee undertook a joint programme on elimination of FGM, performed coaching for stakeholders on the usage of the developed Guide in 5 programme focal states namely- Imo, Ebonyi, Osun, Oyo and Ekiti and out there statistics have indicated optimistic modifications geared in direction of eliminating, FGM within the nation. He mentioned the usage of the guide and coaching can be replicated in different endemic states within the nation relying on the supply of sources.
In accordance with the manager secretary, aside from the aforementioned effort to eradicate FGM within the nation, the fee with the help of EU-UN Highlight Initiative in 2019 established the defunct Particular Unbiased Investigation Panel on Sexual and Gender-Based mostly Violence.
The panel which was headed by the manager secretary sat within the six geopolitical zones of the nation, efficiently heard and decided complaints of SGBV, and supplied empowerment for victims together with supporting girls to accumulate expertise and have interaction in varied types of enterprise actions to earn a residing and help their households as a substitute of relying solely on their husbands who might lack the capability or willingness to cater for his or her households.
