Promoting Safety and Security for the Girl-Child Education in North Eastern Nigeria Project (PSSGE)

Background   Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is one of those groups in a national movement leading a coordinated effort by concerned women, youth and professionals across Nigeria advocating for the quick rescue and return of the nearly 300 young girls abducted by insurgents in a girls secondary school in Chibok, in Borno state north-east Nigeria. Under the national rubric, bring Back Our Girls.   WRAPA’s participation is pr  

Islamic Family Law Project in North Western Nigeria (IFL), Phase Three.

Background The WRAPA Islamic Family Law project is being implemented with support from MacArthur Foundation and the Governments of the seven Northwest States to enhance the application and improve practice around Islamic Family Law matters. The project grew out of concerns with the way and manner Islamic family law and practice was understood and practiced in the 7 North Western States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara. Assumption was rooted in the u  

Enhancing Access for Justice for Women- Legal Aid Services

 BACKGROUND Establishment of legal aid clinics and legal aid committees in 21 states which receive and pursue litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods to enforce the rights of women and seek redress in situations of discrimination or the violation of the rights to human dignity especially in situations of domestic violence, cultural disinheritance, public/work place harassment and gender discrimination.   OUTCOMES / IMPA

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