Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

20

Mar

Husband colludes with wife, sells only child for N500,000

Joe Igbwe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

The Nigerian Child Rights Law 2003 specifically prohibits the sale or procurement of a child but in the world 31-year-old Gideon Ani lives in, no such law exists. Ani, an unemployed indigene of Abia State, who is currently being quizzed by investigators at the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, Lagos had just had his first child, a boy, from …

16

Mar

Is Female Genital Mutilation Happening In The U.S.?

Joe Igbwe FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) No Comments

Female genital mutilation is a harrowing procedure for girls and women. Parts of the genitalia are removed and the reasons for their extraction are 100 percent non-medical. Feminists and women’s rights activists have fought for decades against the act as it seen as a way of confiscating or deriving women of their human rights and sexual pleasure, …

16

Mar

FEMALE STUDENT GOES BLIND AFTER RECIEVING A SLAP FROM THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL’S SECRETARY

Before January 29, 2015, this girl’s eyes was perfect. But the tide changed against Iyanu and it seems she has lost an eye. The event that led to the change in Iyanu’s life started when she was allegedly slapped by one Mrs Funke Fashina, said to be the secretary to the principal of the school. And what was her offence? The woman reportedly saw her …

16

Mar

“OUR PRINCIPAL FEEDS US WITH ROTTEN MEAT AND VEGETABLES.” FGC OHAFIA STUDENTS LAMENT

Joe Igbwe Education, Right to life No Comments

Students of the Federal Government College, Ohafia, Abia, and their parents, have decried the way the new management of the institution is treating them. Hope Goodness Onyema, a student disclosed: “The Principal [Mr. D.I. Okengwo] feeds us with rotten meat and vegetables which he buys by himself, keep in his house and when it is about to spoil, …

16

Mar

Woman Sets Her Husband On Fire For Sexually Abusing Her 7 Year Old Daughter

Joe Igbwe FOREIGN NEWS, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

Vincent Phillips, age given as 52, was doused with a flammable liquid, by this wife, whom then lit match and ignited him while he slept. Sounds serious, yes? Well, even more seriously, Vincent Phillips, the woman’s husband, is facing 1st-Degree Child Molestation charges for allegedly harming his 7-year-old step-daughter. The question is being raised, …

16

Mar

POLICE ARREST ALFA FOR RAPING TEENAGER, AND ASSAULTING HER MOTHER

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

The police in Lagos State have arrested an Islamic cleric, Abdullahi Omobolaji, a.k.aAlfa, for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old teenager, Idowu (pseudonym), in the Agege area of the state. The incident happened on Bakare Lane where the victim lived with her mother and siblings. It was learnt that although Alfa lived in Abule …

15

Mar

Our Husbands Left Us After We Got VVF – Child Brides Cry Out

Joe Igbwe CHILD MARRIAGE No Comments

The experiences of Vesico Vagina Fistula (VVF) patients are better imagined than experienced. In this report, ANKELI EMMANUEL, writes on women suffering from the condition, usually a result of prolonged labour. The plight of 18 year old Rabiatu Haruna from Rabbah local government area of Sokoto State can better be imagined than experienced. Though …

15

Mar

Yemen minister on child marriage: Enough is enough

Joe Igbwe CHILD MARRIAGE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

Yemen’s human rights minister wants child marriage outlawed after an 8-year-old girl reportedly died of internal injuries that she suffered on her wedding night. When reports emerged last week that a girl named Rawan, from the northern Yemeni town of Haradh, died a few days after being married off to a 40-year-old man, Yemenis were horrified. …

15

Mar

Yemen responds to 8 year-old bride’s death

Joe Igbwe CHILD MARRIAGE No Comments

All eyes are on Yemen as local leadership revisits overwhelming pressure to pass and legally uphold child bride minimum age laws. In the shadow of the death of an 8 year-old child bride who died on her wedding night from internal injuries caused by sexual trauma from her 40 year old husband, Yemen’s Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa says investigations …

15

Mar

Malawi bans child marriage, lifts minimum age to 18

Joe Igbwe CHILD MARRIAGE No Comments

Malawi has passed a law banning child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18 in a country where half of girls end up as child brides. Women rights campaigners hailed the move as “a great day for Malawian girls” and said the law would help boost development in one of the world’s poorest countries. But they warned Malawi would not end …

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