“There were three men. I have pain even today… they used my daughter too. She is 12 years old… They also raped my sister. Another man raped a woman who was 4 months pregnant and she lost the child…they were military men. Everyone in the village saw them, they didn’t hide, they didn’t care. I didn’t tell the police because I fear them."
Rape by police and security forces is endemic in Nigeria as is the abject failure of the Nigerian authorities to bring perpetrators to justice, Amnesty International said today at a press conference in Lagos, Nigeria.
The organisation called on the Nigerian Federal and State authorities to urgently overhaul the legal and social systems that tolerate widespread rape and sexual violence against women and girls across the country. (MORE)
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAFR440222006
Please also see:
16 Days of Activism against domestic violence
http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/shelters-251106-index-eng?open&day4
MARCH AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
http://www.amnesty.org/svaw_dv/march/eng
Violence Against Women: Stories You Rarely Hear About
http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=900
Culture of neglect, denial about violence against women is ‘massive’ –
top UN official
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20732&Cr=women&Cr1=violence
Rape by police and security forces is endemic in Nigeria as is the abject failure of the Nigerian authorities to bring perpetrators to justice, Amnesty International said today at a press conference in Lagos, Nigeria.
The organisation called on the Nigerian Federal and State authorities to urgently overhaul the legal and social systems that tolerate widespread rape and sexual violence against women and girls across the country. (MORE)
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAFR440222006
Please also see:
16 Days of Activism against domestic violence
http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/shelters-251106-index-eng?open&day4
MARCH AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
http://www.amnesty.org/svaw_dv/march/eng
Violence Against Women: Stories You Rarely Hear About
http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=900
Culture of neglect, denial about violence against women is ‘massive’ –
top UN official
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20732&Cr=women&Cr1=violence