“Although government has undertaken a number of health reforms, ... , many cultural and religious practices still put the health of women in doldrums."The Federal Government and some Non-Governmental Organisations have decried increasing cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against women and girls in spite of the domestication of extant laws in the country.
They attributed the increasing cases of SGBV to delay by some state governments to adopt and implement the Child Rights Act and the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act, delay in the prosecution of offenders, the culture of silence, traditional practices, among others. Ms Tallen said “although government has undertaken a number of health reforms, including laws against harmful traditional practices, many cultural and religious practices still put the health of women in doldrums.
According to her, in spite of government and partners’ positive interventions, high and community-level advocacy, capacity building of circumcisers, including the provision of alternate income for circumcisers, the practice of FGM still persists. “It goes beyond just having the instruments and the laws; we as a people must criminalise every form of violence against women, girls and children, particularly sexual violence so that we don’t have situations where they will say we will go and settle in the family.
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