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Nigeria: Falana Charges Women On Their Rights
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Vanguard (Lagos)
8 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008
Abdulwahab Abdulah
National coordinator, Women Empowerment and Legal Aid (WELA), Mrs Funmi Falana has called on Nigerian women not to sleep on their right, but to challenge the violation at the appropriate quarters.
Addressing a public awareness programme organized by the group in Lagos, Mrs Falana said that Nigerian women are faced with a lot of domestic problems, including domestic violence, female gental mutilation, widow rites, trafficking of women and girls and female disinheritance among others.
She urged women not to allow their human rights to be violated, adding that her organisation will assist any woman whose rights have been violated, particularly, if the woman is ready to seek redress in court of law.
According to her, women are subjected to series of embarrassments and the violations, in their fundamental human rights, religion and culture, which are alien to the constitution, adding that she decided to embark on the awareness campaign 'to awaken the women folk to their legal rights, help promote and protect these rights as well as to empower women to live responsibly."
Calling on women not to sell their rights, she urged them to settle their domestic quarrels without resorting to violence and behave responsibly at home and in the society, so as to avoid acts that can led to violence.
Further, she urged women to always take up the responsibility of taking care of their children and not leave everything to their husband and also monitor the activities of their children.
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For them to ensure that their rights are protected she urged them "to report cases of discrimination, violence, refusal of bail on the basis of being a woman to our office and we will always be ready to help."
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