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The European Union (EU) has called for stiffer punishment for perpetrators of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) successful Nigeria.This was disclosed by Ruben Alba Aguilera, Head of Cooperation and Team Leader/Head of Section (Democracy, Governance and Migration), European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS.
Aguilera made the telephone astatine EbonyLife Place, Victoria Island, Lagos during the premiere of Deafening Silence, a movie connected GBV. The movie, produced successful collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), showcases the endemic quality of GBV successful Nigeria.
A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) states that 1 successful 3 women acquisition physical, intersexual oregon intimate-partner violence; are victims of trafficking, oregon are taxable to convulsive societal norms.
It was revealed that civilization and religion lend to GBV successful Nigeria. Aguilera said the purpose of the movie was to rise consciousness that permeates each country of Nigeria, interruption silence, unfastened a statement astir the effects of GBV, and bring solutions.
He said the movie was portion of a wider inaugural for which much than N1 cardinal was mobilised. He said: “This is astir raising awareness, breaking the civilization of silence, and making definite that radical are alert that unit exists successful our society, and that we each person to play our relation to halt it. It’s not good to judge unit against our mothers, our sisters and our daughters. We each person to combat and we each person to play our roles.”
He added: “We person invested and worked to marque definite that victims of GBV person entree to basal services and wellness services. Hence, we person 41 Sexual Assault Referral Centres crossed antithetic states successful Nigeria.
“These are centres wherever victims person entree to enactment including ineligible assistance if they privation to talk up and instrumentality their cases to tribunal and person entree to justice.”
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